Caution! Road Signs Ahead

by Toni Buzzeo, Chi Birmingham (Illustrator)

Overview

Empower backseat passengers to become informed backseat drivers with this road sign decoder featuring 35 shaped road signs!

From road signs around the neighborhood, like "School Crossing" and "Playground," to signs you zoom past on the highway, this hefty reference board book highlights and explains 35 road and highway signs for the youngest readers on the go. The shaped pages make each sign tactilely memorable, and the carefully crafted one-sentence explanations will easily guide young readers as they contextualize the world that zips past their backseat windows.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593224328
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	03/02/2021
Pages:	86
Sales rank:	691,528
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.70(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Toni Buzzeo has authored twenty-eight picture books for children, including the 2013 Caldecott Honor Book and New York Times bestseller One Cool Friend, illustrated by David Small. She publishes both fiction and nonfiction. Endlessly enthusiastic, Toni draws on her career experiences as an elementary school librarian in crafting her books and speaking with audiences of children in schools and libraries. Toni lives in Arlington, Massachusetts, just downstairs from her two lovable grandchildren (endless sources of inspiration!) and their devoted parents. For more information about Toni and her books, visit www.tonibuzzeo.com.

Chi Birmingham is an illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in Big Sur, California, and went to the California College of the Arts for Painting. He received an MFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His clients include BusinessWeek, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. This is his first illustrated board book.

Editorial Reviews

"A perfect read for kids on the go and curious about transportation." —Celebrate Picture Books

"Around the neighborhood or on a road trip, pre-reading passengers will be ready to understand the signs along the way." — Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW)

Named a Best Book of 2021 —Kirkus

From the Publisher

07/01/2021

Toddler-PreS—Backseat drivers will delight in this board book featuring 35 different road signs. Using tactile shapes, the title showcases unique and recognizable signs. Each sign has a short one-sentence explanation: "Firehouse/ Prepare to pull over if fire trucks come out of the firehouse." Children will catch on quickly and are likely to memorize the messaging and become sign decoders during long car rides and trips around town. A great purchase for most libraries.

School Library Journal

★ 2021-05-05
Thirty-five road signs explained to toddlers in an extra-thick board book.

Those ubiquitous universal symbols that decorate our streets and highways can be a mystery to kids buckled into their car seats. Explanations written in simple, direct language aim to demystify them. On the inside front cover and its recto page, a four-sentence introduction explains that signs “are a code to let drivers know how to stay safe.” Bright orange text with key words printed in white stands out against the black background. The signs are organized into five increasingly specialized categories: “Everyday,” “Neighborhood,” “Highway,” “Caution,” and “Nature.” All but eight signs are wordless symbols. A full spread is devoted to each one, with the sign on the right and a brief description in a clean black type on a gray page to the left. To adult ears these definitions seem obvious and even redundant, but explanations like “Yield / Let other cars go first!” are admirably successful at translating abstract concepts into concrete terms. Pages cut in the shapes of the signs both add playful variety and ensure small fingers can turn the thick pages. Clean graphics keep the focus on the signs. The final spread offers thumbnail drawings of all the signs by category.

Around the neighborhood or on a road trip, pre-reading passengers will be ready to understand the signs along the way. (Board book. 1-5)

Kirkus Reviews