All three adventures, bound together. If you would rather not stop at the end of a volume — or you are buying for a class, a library or a long journey — this is the one.
Nine-year-old Beatrice is bullied at school because she dreams of becoming a bus driver instead of a ballerina, a footballer, a pop star or a film star. What she has instead is a huge imagination and a great many dreams, one of which is to turn a little model bus into a real talking London Bus.
And guess what? One day, very unexpectedly, she meets a real Bus by the Caramba Café. He can talk, but only people with a big imagination can hear him. She is one of them.
As the two strike up a friendship and meet every Sunday, he introduces her to a secret London where famous tourist attractions and local buildings not only talk but have dreams and problems — a great many problems. There is a Queen of England who is best friends with her own Palace and has an unfulfilled dream of her own; a Mayor with two big secrets; and local newspapers that cannot stop making every story hugely sensational and slightly too confusing.
As Beatrice explores the city, reporting back to Mark at school the next day, she learns about the power of friendship and of dreaming.
