The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk by Kabir & Surishtha Sehgal

Title: The Wheels on the Tuk Tuk
Author/Illustrator: Kabir & Surishtha Sehgal/ Jess Golden
Awards: CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book; Grand Canyon Reader Award Nominee (AZ)
Genre: Fiction
Age: 4-8

This book is an Indian take on Wheels on the Bus, and it's sung to the same tune. It's written by a mother-son duo about their life in India, and since it's based on The Wheels on the Bus, it's what the kids would see when they are looking out the window riding in their Tuk Tuks. The book even included similar features that are included in Wheels on the Bus, such as the wheels on it go round, the wipers go swish, and differences in that they stopped for a cow that was lying in the road, they got sprayed with water by an elephant and things like that aren't likely to happen here in Texas, unless you live in a more country area then you might see a cow in the street, but in India that seems to be normal. Once the book was finished it was just an image of a Tuk Tuk finishing its drive through the town. Tuk Tuk, I learned after reading this book means taxi in India. A taxi driver in India is known as a Tuk tuk wala. So that would be an interesting fact for students to know because not everyone calls things what we call them and this would be a great example of that. Also unlike our taxis that have four wheels, theirs only have three.

I enjoy this book for young children and think it's important for students to see what others might see on their way to school. I think the students could do a project where they take note of some things they see when their own their way to or from school and as a class we would see what different things everybody notices. I also would want my students to listen to this story because it is similar to wheels on the bus, but has new vocabulary words they could learn about.
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