About Let It Roll
Let it Roll reflects the ever-present inner wish, deepest hope, and silent whisper parents carry with them when their children play outside.
The rolling object can represent a runaway scooter, a tossed toy, or anything else that may end up in the road with a child chasing behind.
Young children do not view the space where vehicles roam as dangerous or scary. After all, many of them play with toy cars and watch them speeding about on kids’ TV shows, and no harm follows any of them.
From their point of view, traffic is not a threat to their well-being, so why must they learn boring, tedious crossing rules?
Here is where Let It Roll can make a difference.
Let It Roll is a picture book for young children that reaffirms the often familiar yet overlooked foundational rules of road-crossing. These rules come to life in a captivating fictional narrative by lending relevance to the possible consequences.
Let It Roll is a game changer in the field of traffic safety education. The book integrates these foundational road-crossing rules into the suspense-filled story, making them relatable and memorable, which paves the way for more conversations and learning.
A Note From the Author
Let It Roll was born on a cold winter night and it was not a scheduled delivery. Though there is an oral storytelling tradition in my family, writing a book on pedestrian safety for children was not on my bucket list.
The story is fictional, but it does hold a few facts that may have conspired behind the scenes.
- My father, Sam, was a bus driver.
- He was the one to come up with the imaginary kitten characters, Ooli & Tooli, in his bedtime storytelling.
- The kittens have quickly become household names and numerous real kittens have since been named after them.
The pedestrian safety theme, though, did not come out of some life-changing, traffic-related incident my family or I had experienced. It was not something I was occupied with, and I still have no clue as to how or why it came about. But I am GLAD it did, as it gave me the opportunity to make a difference for children facing this common and challenging environment.
