Next Stop!

“Next Stop!” was highlighted on CBC’s This Morning’s Children’s Book Panel
2000 Best Kid Literature show

Author: Sarah Ellis
Illustrator: Ruth Ohi
Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2000
ISBN: 1-55041-539-5

Quill & Quire:

“Some illustrators may have felt downcast at the prospect of illustrating a book that takes place entirely on a bus, but Ruth Ohi, who excels at small domestic details, combats the visual limitations of the settings by cutting back and forth between the inside and outside of the bus, and putting plenty of people and activity in every double-page spread…”

Booklist:

“…Ohi’s ink-and-watercolour pictures extend the words to capture vignettes that Clairre glimpses on and off the bus. The pictures never get too busy for the young audience, who will recognize Claire’s fascination with seeing strangers in a crowd and imagining each person’s story….”