Miss Leoparda - Natalia Shaloshvili

Beautiful illustrations from an internationally recognized fine artist make this fun, ecologically-minded book about a bus-driving, tree-loving leopard a standout! n When Miss Leoparda isn't sleeping in her beloved tree home, she drives the bus, taking her animal friends around town on their animal business. n n Every day, all of the bus's seats are taken .

. . until the day something amazing and new appears: a little car that speeds off into the distance, leaving clouds of smoke in its wake.

Intrigued, the bus's passengers each get a car of their own, one by one, until the day that Miss Leoparda is the only one left on the bus. n n But more and more cars on the road mean more and more traffic jams, more and more arguments, and fewer and fewer trees--as trees, it seems, are just getting in the way of the jammed-up travelers. n n Will Miss Leoparda be able to nourish a new awareness and help her community return to their senses?

With humor, insight, and gorgeous art, this is a picture book about the importance of the natural world and the value of community, to read again and again.n