More Actions. His writing career doesn't receive the accolades he's expected. 0345810538 I felt as if I knew the gang personally and became invested quite quickly. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of I was transfixed.
Unlock. Totally heartwarming. it worked best when davidson wasn't trying to make a point about how we're all people on the inside and the same despite our differences, and instead just told stories about the kids.This is a personal memoir about a year the author spent driving some middle school and high school aged kids with disabilities on a school bus. It’s charming, heartwarming, and very funny. Broke after some early success as a writer, Craig Davidson was desperate for any job that could provide some income.
He is isolated and alone in Calgary. What a gem of a book? Over the course of the year, the experience changes him and he learns a lot about himself and about the kids he drives on the bus.What a fantastic read. Published The staff and children are amazing and wish the centre was a lot closer to my home as I leave home at 5 a.m. to get to work by 6.20 and have to catch 2 buses then a taxi as too early for a bus from city to Myrtle Bank. The author, by spending a year with these special needs kids, discovered how "precious" these kids truly were. I was a little put off by the excerpts from ‘The Seekers’, but came to appreciate it for what it I really couldn’t fault this book for anything.
With Precious CarGo Shuttle, you can take care of your life while we help take care of your “precious cargo”!Precious CarGo is door-to-door transportation service. I felt as if I knew the gang personally and became invested quite quickly. Davidson rounds out the book by adding in struggles he faced early in his writing career, as well as snippets from an unpublished novel, The Seekers.Author Craig Davidson had been having trouble making ends meet when he took a chance on a job posting for a school bus driver for special needs kids. I absolutely loved this book. Working in Special Ed was one of the most challenging but also most wonderful and rewarding times in my working life. I read this slowly, about a chapter a day, as this year's Canada Reads debates were being held, and slowly started to root for this one. We’d love your help. I personally wanted to read it because I thought it would be a real, accessible way to better understand a part of our society that I don't know much about. #canadareads2018I liked it!
He is isolated and alone in Calgary.
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And, I wanted more.In 2008 Craig Davidson was improvised and looking for work to put food on his table and fuel in his vehicle, when he spied an advertisement for a School Bus Driver - No Experience Needed. Rent/Buy. Start by marking “Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077” as Want to Read:
The yearning for a normal life and realizing it’s been right in front of you all along was a lesson I’ll relearn over and over.
The dialogue was great, and at times I laughed out loud, was touched, and felt angry, so he was really able to portray the emotional roller coaster that was his year spent with these kids. Or a cell from Atilla the Hun's moustache in our eye. As a person who worked as an Educational Assistant for 22 years, I absolutely loved this book! Restart. Our goal is to ensure that only the most dependable drivers make up the Precious CarGo crew.
The writer exposes the feeling of going from ‘normal’ to ‘disabled’ in a way I’ve never sat down and thought about before. In order to …
Our fleet of brand new, 2016 Mercedes Sprinter vehicles seats up to eleven people, which makes it easy for Precious CarGo to shuttle multiple individuals and small groups at once.
He had just applied for, and not gotten, a Lunch Supervisor position, when he found a flyer for bus drivers wanted. I haven't read it, but have heard interviews with the author and it sounds compelling!Precious Cargo: My Year of Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077I was sitting on the edge of my seat as Craig Davidson was previewing raw, unpublished writing about piloting a school bus with special needs children in Calgary and the bonds he formed with his “cargo”. Author Craig Davidson had been having trouble making ends meet when he took a chance on a job posting for a school bus driver for special needs kids. I highly recommend for a balanced dose of humor and humility.There aren’t many times I can count where I a) binge read a book and b) forget where I am because I’m so invested. I was surprised when I flipped the book over to see that author Craig Davidson writes horror fiction under a pseudonym thatIf not for my beloved Canada Reads competition, I would never have picked this up. Plot. Craig Davidson is done and out.
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These were presented as real life events written down when they happened and shared later in this book.
I would definitely recommend this read to others. I teared up when to Craig they became "kids, same as any other kids," and kids who changed his life at that.Touching story that is both funny and sad, like life itself.Broke after some early success as a writer, Craig Davidson was desperate for any job that could provide some income. The individual stories were beautifully told. Call me cynical, but stories that are hopeful and quaint are just not my thing (I'm not sure what this says about me).
As Craig Davidson writes, that small bus containing special needs children will remain “Channel one on your CB radio, number one in your hearts.”If not for my beloved Canada Reads competition, I would never have picked this up.
Indeed, the best parts of the story were rooted in the gritty details of his daily interactions with the special needs students he spent so much time with. This was instantly readable and the portraits the author creates of the five children are beautiful. I admit I slowed down my reading in the end because I didn't want the story to end - knowing that I wouldn't have an ending to the students lives in that I would not know how they went on with their lives - what happened to them?I really couldn’t fault this book for anything.