Focus on Early Readers
Busy Street.
By Edward Miller. Illus. by the author.
2022. 48p. Random, $9.99 (9780593377253). K–Gr. 1.
Out for a car ride with Mommy, young Bonnie notices all the vehicles they pass: garbage trucks, street sweepers, tractor trailers, school buses, pavers and road rollers, trucks for moving and mail, fire engines, car carriers, buses, front-end loaders, concrete mixers, crane and dump trucks, and more. Along the way they stop while a family of ducks crosses the road, wait for a train to pass, and purchase more gasoline. And as they return home Bonny falls asleep. Miller’s rhymed couplets are accompanied by artwork featuring bright, neon colors, simple shapes, minimal backgrounds, a cast of anthropomorphized animal characters, and striking endpapers that depict various road signs. A worthy sequel…