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 Runaway signs
 Author: Holub, Joan

 Publisher:  Penguin (2020)

 Classification: Easy
 Physical Description: [32] p., col. ill., 22 x 27 cm

 BTSB No: 461333 ISBN: 9780399172250
 Ages: 4-7 Grades: K-2

 Subjects:
 Street signs -- Fiction
 Traffic signs and signals -- Fiction
 Signs and signboards -- Fiction
 Humorous fiction

Price: $22.58

Summary:
When all of the signs except Caution, from School Crossing to Ranger Station to a stoplight, decide to take a vacation, they learn how important their jobs really are. Includes sign glossary.

 Illustrator: Farrell, Alison

Reviews:
   Kirkus Reviews (04/01/20)
   School Library Journal (05/01/20)
   Booklist (04/01/20)

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Booklist - 04/01/2020 When school lets out for summer vacation, the two silhouette figures on the yellow school-crossing sign decide that they’re ready for a break too. After all, not one of those happy kids streaming across the street paused to say goodbye! Will anyone even miss the silhouettes? They invite the bicycle-built-for-two from a bike-route sign to join them. As they cycle through town, more silhouettes and whole signs join them, happily racing off and enjoying the Adventureland amusement park together. Meanwhile, cars are colliding and kids can’t find the bike path or the library. The signs run back to their official places, feeling needed once again. Holub’s concise, satisfying narrative and the characters’ speech-balloon comments read aloud well. The story’s unspoken message, that everyone likes to be appreciated for what they do, is one that young children can appreciate. Capturing the joy of an unexpected holiday, Farrell contributes a series of wonderfully childlike gouache-and-ink illustrations that become increasingly chaotic, then resolve into order as the signs return to their posts. An appealing picture book for reading aloud. - Copyright 2020 Booklist.

School Library Journal - 05/01/2020 K-Gr 2—Along the streets that run by Sunnyside school, the signs are different. They might look the same as those of other towns, but these have a life of their own. Near Sunnyside, the two silhouetted children on the sign audibly tell children to "cross here" each day. But as school ends for the year, it's clear that their help has been ignored. There's no "thanks," no "goodbye" for the summer—leaving them puzzled. "I feel kind of underappreciated, don't you?" Minutes later, they decide no one would miss them and it would be a great time to take a long, much-needed vacation. With a leap off their sign, they find other town signs to join them: signs for Bike Path, Street Crossing, Animal Crossing, Dangerous Turn, Roadwork, and Detour. Town streets revealed in gouache and ink illustrations wind across the pages, turning into roads crossing country bridges, while characters from the signs stand in black silhouette in contrast to the colors of nearby Adventureland amusement park. Many jump at the chance to leave their "work" and take a ride on a ferris wheel that gives them a panoramic view of the town library, school, streets—and the posts they left. Realizing that the town was now "in a tangle," the signs all rush back to their stations. VERDICT A suggested general purchase for all libraries, this title gives young readers a detailed look at common street signs with an inventive story to highlight their importance.—Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX - Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.

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