{"id":37403,"date":"2015-05-24T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=37403"},"modified":"2015-05-24T09:20:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T13:20:21","slug":"the-bus-ride-by-marianne-dubuc-edited-by-yvette-ghione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-bus-ride-by-marianne-dubuc-edited-by-yvette-ghione\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bus Ride by Marianne Dubuc, edited by Yvette Ghione"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/04\/Bus-Ride-by-Marianne-Dubuc-on-BookDragon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37404\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/04\/Bus-Ride-by-Marianne-Dubuc-on-BookDragon-800x498.jpg\" alt=\"The Bus Ride\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/04\/Bus-Ride-by-Marianne-Dubuc-on-BookDragon-800x498.jpg 800w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2015\/04\/Bus-Ride-by-Marianne-Dubuc-on-BookDragon.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;m taking the bus by myself,&#8221; Clara announces. With basket in hand\u00a0\u2013 which holds her snack and a red sweater at the insistence of her mother in case she gets cold\u00a0\u2013 Clara is off to visit her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p>The number 18 bus is filled with various mobile passengers, some who get off, others who\u00a0get on. Clara easily makes friends with her fellow riders, from a goat who\u00a0offers her a flower, to a young wolf with whom she shares her snack, to a tiny possum who manages to enjoy\u00a0her last cookie, to a young boy who helps her save the beaver from being pick-pocketed by the sly fox. So involved is she with all that&#8217;s going on, she forgets to count the number of stops. Still, she manages to get off just in time to run into her grandmother&#8217;s waiting arms.<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning French Canadian artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariannedubuc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Marianne Dubuc<\/a>&#8216;s latest title is not only an independent rite-of-passage\u00a0for Clara, but the young reader is in for quite the interactive tag-along, as well. Woven into her frolicsome drawings, Dubuc adds additional narratives that don&#8217;t need words to discover and enjoy. The sleeping sloth might spend the entire journey\u00a0in slumber, but he&#8217;s got some somnambulant surprises\u00a0of his own. The wee\u00a0possum is quite the bubble-popper, especially when the lights go out. The identity of the only human adult amidst the menagerie remains a (oh-so-clever-but-solvable) mystery, even as his or her newspaper announces warnings and clues. Hats and binkies go swapping in the dark. And, in a wink-wink to older readers, the red-sweatered Clara on her way to her grandmother&#8217;s invitingly offers\u00a0her address to the little wolf. Aren&#8217;t unexpected friendships grand?<\/p>\n<p>With careful attention to Dubuc&#8217;s hidden-in-plain sight chimerical details,\u00a0<em>The Bus Ride<\/em>\u00a0quickly becomes many adventures in a single book. So get on, already! Parents will be relieved that &#8216;Are we there yet?&#8217; is not a part of this picture!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Children<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2015 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This is the first time I&#8217;m taking the bus by myself,&#8221; Clara announces. With basket in hand\u00a0\u2013 which holds her snack and a red sweater at the insistence of her mother in case she gets cold\u00a0\u2013 Clara is off to visit her grandmother. 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