Red Car, Red Bus

Sometimes the best picture books start from the simplest beginnings. This one opens with an empty street running along the page. Down the street comes a red bus, then a red car, a yellow car, a yellow van, an orange van ... so the ‘story’ unfolds as further vehicles join the convoy.  Add in people - waiting for the bus, running for the bus, doing their daily tasks, driving their various vehicles - and you can’t help but start to create stories. 

Simple – but also delightfully complex! The book can show you the way stories generally go from left to right - but also introduces the joy of going backwards; that words may not tell the whole story; and that readers are vital to the constantly changing process of telling.