Books like All Aboard the London Bus
By Patricia Toht
All Aboard the London Bus turns a city tour into a game your kid wants to play again and again, hopping off at Big Ben, climbing back on for the London Eye, chanting the rhymes before you finish the line. It's a whole day of sightseeing without anyone's legs getting tired. Here are more rides worth taking twice.
Same rhyming road trip energy, but Rattletrap Car by Phyllis Root adds a car that barely runs and snacks with ridiculous names.
The bus rhymes turned landmarks into jokes. Science Verse by Jon Scieszka does the same trick to amoebas and black holes.
Instead of a city day out, The Dirt Book: Poems About Animals that Live Beneath Our Feet by David L. Harrison takes the same rhyming curiosity straight down into the soil.
A librarian accidentally drives her bookmobile straight into a zoo, then matches every animal with just the right book — tall ones for giraffes, waterproof ones for a Harry Potter-loving otter.
Kids who liked hunting for London sights on every page will want to hunt for clues in The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base.
Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown has the same puff-puff-chug rhythm as the bus rumbling through town, just headed west instead.
Monarch butterflies leave Canada each fall and fly all the way to Mexico, crossing snow-capped mountains and deserts to reach the forests their ancestors once called home.
While the Petersons are away, their house decides it deserves a vacation too — but its rooms can't agree on a destination until the sunporch votes for the beach and leads the way.
Less about riding along, more about dreaming up the ride. If I Built a Car by Chris Van Dusen lets a kid design a wilder vehicle than any double-decker.
A relentlessly cheerful stranger follows a grumpy skeptic everywhere, asking him to try green eggs and ham in a box, on a train, in the rain — anywhere, everywhere.
Shorter and quieter than a full city tour, Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen is one simple question asked over and over until the boat finally tips.
No rhymes this time, just pictures telling the story, but Father Christmas Goes on Holiday by Raymond Briggs keeps that same delight in a family off exploring somewhere new.
