You drive the biggest vehicle your child has ever been inside, full of people who need you to be careful.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be a bus driver. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
This personalized book turns your route, your regulars, and your very early mornings into a story about carrying a whole neighborhood safely from place to place.
What bus drivers actually do all day
Inspect the bus before the first passenger gets on
Drive a fixed route on a tight schedule, in traffic
Keep everyone on board safe, calm, and accounted for
Start very early, and often finish very late
How to explain a bus driver's job to a child
If your child is 3 or 4
Bus drivers drive the big bus and keep everybody safe. They stop at the same places every day so people can get on and off exactly where they need to.
If your child is 5 to 7
A bus driver checks the bus over, then drives a set route on a schedule while watching traffic, passengers, and every stop. They are responsible for everyone on board the whole trip.
The tools kids find interesting
The bus
Mirrors
Route schedule
Door lever
Radio to dispatch
What a child would notice at a bus driver's work
A parent who remembers every regular's stop
Walking around the bus before every trip
Kids waving from the sidewalk
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about bus drivers
How buses keep a city moving
Why the driver watches everything at once
What mom or dad does before the sun comes up
That being trusted with people is a big job
Frequently asked questions
School bus or transit?
We ask, and the passengers and route change accordingly.
Can it show my actual route landmarks?
We can include the kinds of landmarks you describe.
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.