Follow that Bus!

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Random House Children's Books, Oct 12, 1988 - Juvenile Fiction - 102 pages
An ordinary school field trip turns into a Keystone Kops-type adventure (School Library Journal), complete with chase scenes, mistaken identities, kidnappings, and heroic captures.

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Contents

Raring to Go
1
Follow That Bus
9
The Getaway
16
Copyright

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Follow that Bus!
Pat Hutchins
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ain't Akbar shouted Avril BARCLAYS BANK barn Bert Bert's bull bus to look Camden Town catch caught chase chil clutching black satchels Coatsworth County Hunt cows cried crowd desperately dogs Dominic door dren driver excitedly exclaimed Miss Beaver eyes face farm farmer's wife farmhouse feet fields Follow That Bus front gasped gate glancing Hampstead hand handbag head HIP HIP HOORAY hounds hungry jumped kidnapped kids laughed leaped LEVEL CROSSING licorice ball lunch lunchbox Miss Beaver added Miss Beaver looked Miss Beaver nod Morgan shouted murmured muttered nodded nose number 24 bus Oh dear Old Amos pigs pocket police program on TV pulled raincoat Ramsbottom rest road roared robbers school bus screamed Sergeant Pattison shouted Morgan smiled staring stop third grade Three cheers trac tractor and trailer trying village policeman waiting waving whispered Jessica wildly window yelled Morgan

About the author (1988)

Pat Hutchins was born Patricia Goundry on June 18, 1942 in Yorkshire, England. In 1958 at the age sixteen, she won a scholarship to attend the Darlington School of Art, where she studied for three years. Then she attended the Leeds College of Art, where studied illustration. After graduating in 1962, she moved to London. She worked as a junior art director at the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. She met her husband there and after they were married, her husband was transferred by the advertising company to head up its New York office. While in New York, she met the editor-in-chief of the children's department at Macmillan, who encouraged her to write and illustrate her own story. Her first book, Rosie's Walk, was published in 1968 and was a 1968 ALA Notable Book. She wrote more than 40 books for young readers including Titch, Don't Forget the Bacon!, 1 Hunter, Good-Night, Owl!, and The Doorbell Rang. In 1974, The Wind Blew won the Kate Greenaway Medal. She died on November 7, 2017 at the age of 75.

Bibliographic information

TitleFollow that Bus!
AuthorPat Hutchins
Illustrated byLaurence Hutchins
Editionillustrated
PublisherRandom House Children's Books, 1988
ISBN0394807928, 9780394807928
Length102 pages
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Juvenile Fiction / Transportation / General
  
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