With the holidays looming up ahead, it’s time to set your mind to travel and fun things. Here are four books to take you through the month. These books have a common theme running through them, and yes, it’s travel or modes of transport.
Though it has wheels, it has long since given up the ghost. A Bus Called Heaven by Bob Graham is a story of a little girl named Stella who falls in love with a bus that suddenly appears in the neighbourhood. It’s a long time since the bus has done its last journey, but Stella insists she takes it home. The whole neighbourhood pitches in and they push and pull the wreck to her front yard.
Everyone gets together and revamps the bus, making it a happy place for everyone. But, one Saturday morning, a tow truck arrives and the driver says, “The bus has to go...”
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Another book, though it does not directly involve travel centres around a train.
Take off
It’s time for a real holiday story.
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And how about a car that decides where you should go and how? Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again is a continuation of Ian Fleming’s book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang . The sequel is written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, a great fan of the first book. Mr Tooting has lost his job and instead of getting himself a new one, he decides to fix things around the house. And, gets himself an old broken camper-van, much to the dismay of the family, which consists of Mrs Tooting, Lucy, the moody daughter, Jem the whiz-kid and baby Harry. And then the fun begins.
At the end of it you will wish you had a car like that!