Title: Wait For Us, Counting Bus
Written by: Susan Rose Simms
Illustrated by: Isa Pirracas
Published by: Wonder House Books
Type: Board book
Length: 24 pages
Age recommendation: 2-5 years
Sowmya’s review:
A charming book to teach your curious toddler about numbers, community and sounds!
A new nursery rhyme about a bus chugging through town and stopping at the school, park and construction site- all of which will entertain your little reader. The book uses onomatopoeia and bright colours to spin together a cute bedtime story and help instill the love for reading at an early age!
My 2.5 year old, Samvit loved the colourful illustrations and listened raptly to the gentle rhyming words of the bus’s journey!
Highly recommended for toddler parents for some learning fun.
Preethi Joseph has shared her review in our kbc fb group here with an inside page. Quoting her:
Yet another awesome counting book from the author-illustrator duo Susan Rose Simms & Isa Pirracas. We already had Counting Train Track, . My son somehow recognised both books have been created by the same people. Now he’s asking when will they bring out an aeroplane book…?!
Are you on the lookout for a fun way to introduce numbers and counting to your toddlers? Then this is the book for you, with simple rhyming lyrics that are easy to read aloud during the musical bus journey. Also introduces your kiddo to new vocabulary. For eg. Gnomes. Illustrations are bold and bright. This thick interactive board book is sturdy and easy for the little fingers to turn.”
Minoti’s review:
Minoti has shared her review with pictures of her kids enjoying the book in the kbc fb group here. Quoting her: “Wait for Us, Counting Bus” follows a cheerful bus on its journey through a city stopping at the school, park, and construction site and each stop brings a new counting opportunity for your kiddo.
While reading to my kids, I loved mimicking the bus sounds and laughing. The rhyming is gentle and easy to read aloud, making it perfect for anytime read.
But here’s my favorite part – my soon-to-be 6yo son, Yashaswi had never heard of gnomes before, and when we encountered them in the book, he was absolutely fascinated. He started asking all sorts of questions about what gnomes are, where they live, and what they do. It sparked this wonderful little conversation that extended way beyond the book itself.
The illustrations are bold and colourful which will attract kids to turn pages back and forth. I recommend it, if you are looking for a counting book that’s genuinely fun, sparks curiosity, and doesn’t feel like a learning chore.”
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YOUR TEXTDisclaimer: Preethi, Sowmya and Minoti won this book as a prize in one of the WonderHouseWedenesdaysOnKBC contests from the publisher via kbc.
