THE YELLOW BUS

By Loren Long (Roaring Brook Press, 2024) This story began from a curious mind. As author-illustrator Loren Long explains at the end of the book, an old yellow school bus “surrounded by goats” rests in a field he passes by while on his regular jogs. How did it wind up there? What was its history? Here’s a window into Long’s imagined chronology of the bus’s roles, its users varying over time: ·…