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In this series authors were invited to share an excerpt of 500 words from any of their published books

Submissions are now closed for this series but there will be another in early 2024.. My thanks to all who have participated.

Delighted to share my review for the latest release by children’s author Sue Wickstead….Bus Rhymes and Playtime

About the book

Poetry and Rhymes to sing with a bus theme.

Have you got your ticket ready?
Where shall we go today?
Why not jump on board the bus – come along to sing and play.
So take your seat as off we go.
What could happen along the way?

An excerpt from the book – Spooky Bus Ride

©Sue Wickstead

My review for the book

This is a wonderful compilation album of new rhymes and stories and reminders of some of the other many books Sue Wickstead has written for children, with buses being the main feature for most of them. There are also bears and stories about David who loves his bath and the weekly visit from the binmen

In this book, as with the others, the wonderful illustrations guide the reader from page to page with vibrant colours and little details that would require the reader and the child enjoying the story, to stop and chat about what they can see and imagine.

The rhymes themselves are easy to learn with a lyrical and musical flow that would also be easy for a child to remember and to learn.

Altogether this is a delightful book and my own regret is that I don’t have any grandchildren to pass this and the others along to. But it certainly brightened my day.

Highly recommended.

Head over to buy the book in Print and Kindle: Amazon UK –  And: Amazon US

A small selection of other books by Sue Wickstead

Read the reviews and buy the books: Amazon UK – And: Amazon US – More reviews: Goodreads – Website/Blog: Sue Wickstead – Facebook: Stories Sue – Facebook: Teacher Page – Twitter: @JayJayBus – LinkedIn: Sue Wickstead 

About Sue Wickstead

Award winning books. Shortlisted in the Wishing Shelf Book awards.

Sue Wickstead is a teacher and an author and has written children’s picture books with a bus theme. In addition, she has also written a photographic history book about the real bus behind her story writing.

Her bus stories are about a playbus. Have you ever been on a Playbus?

When Sue’s two children were young, they attended a playgroup on a bus, but not an ordinary bus taking you on a journey, exciting though this is, but a Playbus stuffed full of toys to capture their imagination!

For over 20 years, alongside her teaching career, she worked with the charity, the Bewbush Playbus Association.

As part of the committee she painted the bus, worked in the groups, helped raise the profile of the project and its work and was part of the team involved in raising funds to replace the old bus with a newer vehicle. This led her to write a photographic history book about it.

‘It really was a fun journey to be involved in’, said Sue. The bus really got into her blood and became a work of the heart.

Having written the history book Sue soon found that many children had never been on a bus before, let alone a ‘Playbus’ and they wanted to know more. So, she decided to write a fictional tale, his number plate JJK261, gave him his name.

‘Jay-Jay the Supersonic Bus,’ came out in print in 2014. It is the story behind the original project and is his journey from a scrap-yard to being changed into a playbus for children to play in. From Fact to fiction the bus journey continues.

This story has now been followed by more picture books.‘A Spooky Tale’ and ‘The Christmas Play Rehearsal’ do indeed have a bus connection as well as links to her teaching journey.

Sue has undertaken events and author bookings and loves to share her stories, she is also proud to be ‘a patron of reading’.

The books have all received 5-star awards from ‘Readers Favourite’. Sue’s books have also been short-listed in ‘The wishing Shelf’ book awards. With ‘A Spooky Tale’ a silver medal winner.

 

Thank you for dropping in today and I hope you will be leaving with some books.. Sally.