Caution Road Signs Ahead

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.

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.

"Packed with over 200 funny signs, this book is the ultimate collection of accidentally entertaining bits of roadside Americana. Open to any page and you'll find an ironic, suggestive, mislabeled, off-color or otherwise amusing sign that was spotted and photographed by an everyday traveler on a road trip somewhere across America"--Back cover

Thirty familiar signs fill the pages of this handsome book, and invite the viewer to COME IN! "Right on target."--Booklist.

Explains how neighborhood signs help people stay safe, drive safely, and find their way around. Suggested level: junior.

When the road signs take a vacation, chaos and hilarity ensue--and they quickly learn how important they are. School is ending for the summer, and the stick figures on the school crossing sign are jealous of all the vacation plans they hear the students making. The stick figures work hard--maybe they deserve a vacation, too! So they abandon their signpost and set off on an adventure, inviting along all the other underappreciated road signs they meet on the way. It's all fun and games for a while, especially when they stumble upon a fantastic amusement park. But the people they've left behind are feeling their absence, and soon there are traffic tangles and lost pedestrians everywhere. The signs are more important than they realized, and now it's time for them to save the day!

Does your little one love street signs? Finally, a book that explains in simple language what the most common signs mean. Filled with full-color photographs of popular street signs. Text at the bottom of each page makes it easy to point out words to developing readers.

What an exciting way to help teach your pre-school or early-school child to read! "Stop, Wait, Go!" uses beautifully illustrated pictures with common road signs and symbols to tell an engaging story that entertains as it teaches. Award-winning artist, designer, and children's author, Nancy King, arouses your child's curiosity about everyday road signs seen in their travels. Featured are road signs with and without words and of various shapes and colors, that familiarize the child with commonly seen signs. The book evokes the classic family road trip to a happy destination as the family locates familiar signs in typical settings. Each family member has a distinct personality, and animals enrich the passing landscape for added interest. Bright, full-color, 17" x 8 1/2" spreads provide maximum visual appeal. The simple story line includes an adventure with a satisfying ending for everyone. Bonus feature: The back pages of the book include a memory game and a dictionary of additional common signs and symbols, providing delightful and informative reading for all!

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, an orphan who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II as she discovers her own voice and sexuality, ultimately finding a family when she gets a job at a gay cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson. On her eighteenth birthday, Hilde leaves her orphanage in 1930s Berlin, and heads out into the world to discover her place in it. But finding a job is hard, at least until she stumbles into Café Lila, a vibrant cabaret full of expressive customers. Rosa, one of the club’s waitresses and performers, immediately takes Hilde under her wing. As the café denizens slowly embrace Hilde, and she embraces them in turn, she discovers her voice and her own blossoming feelings for Rosa. But Berlin is in turmoil. Between the elections, protests in the streets, worsening antisemitism and anti-homosexual sentiment, and the beginning seeds of unrest in Café Lila itself, Hilde will have to decide what’s best for her future . . . and what it means to love a place on the cusp of war.