Granny makes a bunk bed bus (The Bunk-Bed Bus - Frank Rodgers)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	The Bunk-Bed Bus - Frank Rodgers
Date:	27/09/07 (126 review reads)
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Advantages: Fun book for children.

Disadvantages: None

The bunk bed bus.

This is a book by Frank Rodgers written in 1989. Frank Rodgers has written and illustrate over 60 books .He was born in 1944 and became an art teacher. In 1987 he resigned from teaching and devoted his career to writing and illustrating books. The bunk bed bus is a children’s book suitable for children between 5 and 8 years old. I got my copy from the charity shop for a few pence. You can buy a paperback copy of this book for £3.99p from http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay /0,,9780141315614,00.html... The country book shop has it for £3.19 http://www.countrybookshop.co.uk/cgi-bin/search.pl ?

I have a hard back copy of this book. I do not think the hard back copies are available new any more. The RRP on my hard backed book is £7.99.

Right, now are you sitting comfortably? Now I will begin to tell you about the story.

Janet and Sam have a Granny full of energy. She loves to go jogging, does woodwork, and fixes cars... Sam and Janet loved their Granny.
The family have a snooty next door neighbour who always looks down her nose at Granny’s constructions, but Granny didn’t mind her neighbour’s comments,

One day the children’s beds finally collapse from the children doing too much bouncing on them. S Granny makes a bunk bed for the children. . The children played on the bed pretending it was a bus...

Granny goes outside and gets lots of old junk: _ old wheels old bedsteads, and starts welding. Her snooty next door neighbour looks over and makes a sarky comment and tells granny that she is entering an art competition.
Granny then disappears into the shed and makes lots of noise clattering drilling and tinkering noise... Then later that day Granny emerges with her construction …….. , it’s a bunk bed bus she has made a sculpture for the art show. It’s a bunk bed with additions to make it look like a bus. They have to push it to the competition of course. No engine.
They can not get this sculpture into the hall so it has to be judged outside. We see the neighbour looking down her nose at it; I shall not tell you if Granny wins the competition or the snooty next door neighbour.

The town council buy Granny’s bus and use it in the children’s play park and the children and all their friends can play on it.
I think this book is a fun book for the age group it is aimed at. I read it to Adrian nearly 5 and he seemed to enjoy it and like the idea of a bus made to look like a bus.
The illustrations are good. Lots to talk about in the pictures. The characters faces very expressive.

This hard backed book has 23 pages measuring 215mm by 196 mm. I believe the soft backed version has more pages and is slightly smaller. It is published by the [penguin group of books. If you wish to see more about this book or more books by Frank Rodgers go to http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1 000027541,00.html.
Thanks for reading. Remember it’s important to read to and with your children also hearing them read

Summary: A book for children