The Can Caravan
When Janie’s neighbour Mrs Tolen goes into hospital with a broken hip, it looks as though she will have to move out of her old caravan and into a house. Janie is desperate to help, but all seems lost until her school visits a local recycling plant. All it takes from there is imagination, a supportive community, and lots and lots of hard work to transform Mrs Tolen’s old caravan into a safe and secure new home! The latest picture book by renowned Romani storyteller Richard O’Neill celebrates the traditional Traveller virtues of resilience, adaptability, loyalty and independence.
Latest reviews
A heartwarming tale about kindness, community, and recycling.
Great book
I love it
It's very friendly
She liked the can caravan and I liked it.
Very good
I really liked Janie because she restored Mrs Tolen’s caravan with recycled aluminium sheets, which is creative and also super kind that she helped her.
Janie as she helped Mrs Tolen
I like Caravan!
I liked that the caravan was made out of cans and that everyone was kind and made it for free from recycling
Janie was the best character as she had a great imagination and helped Mrs Tolen
You learn how to recycle cans. There was a girl in the story and she liked to draw creatively. And her grandpa's sister lived in the caravan, and once the sister broke her leg and had to go to the hospital. The girl went to the hospital to see grandpa's sister and it was a surprise for her. My favourite person in the story was the girl.
My favourite character is Mrs Tolen because Mrs Tolen broke her leg.
At the end it shows you how cans can be recycled again and again.
I learnt if someone is sad or hurt everything is alright
Interesting book understanding recycling Kind little girl
When you find something thing hard you should not give up
Nice
I like the book
I love that the girl is trying to help the grandma.
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