Lombardo Francesca Bücher

Beatrice has a secret ... Many secrets, actually, and she keeps them all to herself, apart from sharing a few with her BFF Mark. Every Sunday Beatrice embarks on a crazy adventure with her other bestie, who happens to be the talking London Bus RM 168 via Waterloo. London is not the city everyone thinks it is! The Bus introduces her to a city full of secrets, illusions and traps but also fun adventure and secrets stories. Its inhabitants - famous grumpy talking buildings, parks and tourists attractions who all complain for some one or another to the Mayor of London - a man known for his fiery temper - all have hopes, unfulfilled dreams and problems, just like Beatrice. She's captured by the sloppy MI6's spies, helps a whimpering Red Telephone Box resolve the mysterious disappearance of her phone - then she meets the Mayor of London, who has two big secrets of his own. And he's planning to get rid of the old London Bus ....

Nine-year-old Beatrice is bullied at school because she dreams of becoming a bus driver instead of a ballerina, a football player, a pop star or a film star. But she has a special skill that helps her cope with all that; a huge imagination and of course, a lot dreams. One of them 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 Caramba Cafè - he can talk but only people with big imagination can hear him. She's one of them. As the two strike a friendship and meet every Sunday, he introduces her to a secret London where famous tourist attractions and local buildings not only can talk but also have dreams and problems - many problems. There's also the Queen of England who's best friend with her own Palace - she too has an unfulfilled dream; a city's Mayor who has two big secrets and local newspapers that can't stop making stories hugely sensational and a bit too "confusing". As Beatrice embarks on her discovery-journey about town, which she duly reports to her BFF Mark the next day at school, she learns about the power of friendship and dreaming, about the "complicated" world of the grown-ups and mostly, about self-acceptance and being proud of herself. ALWAYS.

Beatrice has a secret ... Many secrets, actually, and she keeps them all to herself, apart from sharing a few with her BFF Mark. Every Sunday Beatrice embarks on a crazy adventure with her other bestie, who happens to be the talking London Bus RM 168 via Waterloo. London is not the city everyone thinks it is! The Bus introduces her to a city full of secrets, illusions and traps but also fun adventure and secrets stories. Its inhabitants - famous grumpy talking buildings, parks and tourists attractions who all complain for some one or another to the Mayor of London - a man known for his fiery temper - all have hopes, unfulfilled dreams and problems, just like Beatrice. She's captured by the sloppy MI6's spies, helps a whimpering Red Telephone Box resolve the mysterious disappearance of her phone - then she meets the Mayor of London, who has two big secrets of his own. And he's planning to get rid of the old London Bus ....