Next Stop!

by Sarah Ellis, Ruth Ohi (Illustrations)

As Claire rides the bus, she helps the driver by noting the features each stop offers and observes the people getting on and off the bus.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Writer, columnist, and librarian Sarah Ellis has become one of the best-known authors for young adults in her native Canada with titles such as The Baby Project, Pick-Up Sticks, and Back of Beyond: Stories of the Supernatural. In addition to young adult novels, Ellis has also written for younger children and has authored several books about the craft of writing. Praised by Booklist contributor Hazel Rochman as "one of the best children's literature critics," Ellis "writes without condescension or pedantry. . . . Her prose is a delight: plain, witty, practical, wise."

Ellis was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in 1952, the youngest of three children in her family. As she once noted, "[My] joy in embroidering the truth probably comes from my own childhood. My father was a rich mine of anecdotes and jokes. He knew more variations on the 'once there were three men in a rowboat' joke than anyone I've encountered since.

Reviews

[Mary]

This was such a fun book! I loved the way Claire spends her Saturdays people-watching and the surprises in store for us at the end!

[Lynn Davidson]

Claire is a little girl who travels on the bus on Saturdays and helps the driver. She calls out the places the busy passengers can visit at each stop. This is a sweet story with great illustrations.