Date Published: 2025
Publisher: Serapis Bey Publishing
and book, The Wheels on the Bus, invites parents and children on a stroller
journey of song, motion, and colorful illustrations. Roll through a variety of
neighborhoods meeting delightful creatures and various neighbors in action as
the seasons change. Experience being fully present in the moment with your
child as you sing and act out each verse. The Stroller kids show readers how
to perform each motion! In addition, a picture clue in each illustration
signals the next action. The Wheels on the Stroller aims to reawaken the joy
and wonder of simple, everyday happenings as seen through the eyes of young
children. It seeks to inspire readers to make up verses of their own based on
adventurous stroller walks (or wagon walks!) through their neighborhoods.
Ready…Set…Let’s Roll!
Excerpts
“The children in the yards play throw and catch! throw and catch!
throw and catch! The children in the yards play throw and catch! through the
neighborhood.”
“The parents crossing streets say ‘look both ways’
‘look both ways’ ‘look both ways.’ The parents
crossing streets say ‘look both ways’ through the
neighborhood.”
About the Author
of speech-language pathology and she also received extensive training in the
teaching of reading. She maintained her American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association (ASHA) certification during her 35+ years of teaching and for many
years after retirement. Claudia taught mainly in the public schools with
students of all ages but primarily with special education and general
education students at the preschool and elementary levels.
When teaching at the preschool level, Claudia encouraged busy parents to
utilize the time spent carrying out daily routines as language-rich
opportunities. Parents were counseled to talk about what was happening in a
child’s “here and now” – while getting dressed, brushing
teeth, taking a stroller walk! Claudia used available and self-generated
rhymes and songs and involved as many bodily senses and movements as possible
to facilitate developmental skills in preschoolers. She considers the
repetition used in The Wheels on the Bus book and now in The Wheels on the
Stroller to be a valuable learning tool for young children. According to early
childhood research, repetition reinforces language processing, pattern
recognition and a sense of predictability. It also provides children with
opportunities to rehearse new sound and word sequences.
After retirement, Claudia’s love of rhyme inspired her to take a few
children’s poetry writing classes. She was pleased to have several poems
published in “Highlights High Five” and “Highlights”
magazines, with two poems also published in children’s anthologies. The
joy of reading to her sons long ago and now her grandchildren sparked her
desire to write a children’s book as well. One day, after she and her
young grandson enthusiastically sang and motioned along with The Wheels on the
Bus book, grandma and grandson set out for one of their many adventure-seeking
neighborhood stroller walks. As the wheels on his stroller went round and
round, they greeted neighbors with tail-wagging dogs, watched squirrels scurry
up trees and delighted in the “ding! ding! ding!” of an
approaching bicycle along with other encounters- The Wheels on the Stroller
was spontaneously born!
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