Those few steps up to the big yellow school bus can be scary to a kindergartner or other students who might be leaving to go somewhere on their own for the first time.

Dattco bus company, which operates 1,700 school buses in Connecticut and Rhode Island, has come up with a fun way to help allay that anxiety and teach the rules to school bus newcomers.

They’ve published “ Big Yellow Adventure, ” a free children’s book online and in print and a coloring book. Dattco’s team, including its top brass, went on a tour of sorts this summer reading the book at kindergarten orientations.

Both books are available in English and Spanish.

“We’ve had a huge response to the book,” said Don DeVivo president and owner of Dattco, which celebrates its 100th birthday this year. “I think the book mak

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