The Driving Book: Everything New Drivers Need to Know but Don't Know to Ask | 
 enlarge | Author: Karen Gravelle
Creator: Helen Flook
Publisher: Walker Books for Young Readers
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 280246
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 4.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0802789331
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.283
EAN: 9780802789334
ASIN: 0802789331
Publication Date: June 4, 2005
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Product Description
Even after taking Driver's Ed and passing that dreaded road test, there are so many things new drivers need to learn about the practical aspects of driving that will only come from experience. Handing over the keys is a traumatic rite of passage for parents, and they will sleep better knowing that The Driving Book is in their teens' glove compartments. Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire to negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, Karen Gravelle helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory-on the road and at home.
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Okay for the Younger Driver, But Definitely Not 'Everything' August 22, 2006
16 out of 21 found this review helpful
"The Driving Book" by Karen Gravelle with illustrations by Helen Flook is a book with young drivers in mind. While the directions might be common knowledge to the driving veteran, it covers a wide variety of topics over the 161 pages of the main text. Much of this information, however, can be found in the local driver's guide, so this book was written probably because the author couldn't _not_ write it.
I hate to disagree with any text that tries to get drivers to drive better. On page 55, however, there is an unlikely statement about going with the traffic flow not exempting the driver from a speeding ticket on the highway. In the old days that might have been true, but given the number of horrific crashes caused by police pulling drivers over for a speeding ticket, you'd have to be flat out reckless for them to pull you over on the freeway or highway. It is beyond ridiculous, not to mention a terrible waste of taxpayer money, to pull someone over on the freeway nowadays to give him or her a $95 speeding ticket that ends up causing a $100,000 crash. If you are going with the traffic flow, contrary to what "The Driving Book" says, you are not going to get a ticket. This because both the officer and the judge know you are going to summon the officer in court and mitigate the case; the judge will then question the officer's judgment and let the driver go because of the terrible waste of everybody's time.
If, however, you are ticketed for doing 85 on the freeway, you might not be so lucky, and the book is correct in pointing this out. So if you have a young driver who hardly knows what's going on out there, then this is the right book. $17 might be a bit much to pay for it, given its familiarity and overall lack of nothing new, but I nevertheless found it quite novelistic. The cute illustrations might make it more interesting to read, in fact, than the driver's manual--but definitely try to find a copy on sale. For the money, at present the best book for teenage drivers (and a book with far more useful and better written details) is Timothy C. Smith's "Crashproof Your Kids--Make Your Teen A Safer, Smarter Driver," which is a much more informative work on driver education than "The Driving Book." Ms. Gravelle is highly incorrect and unfairly presumptuous to use the subtitle "Everything New Drivers Need to Know..." when clearly Mr. Smith is the expert.
Once you see "Highliner" then you'll definitely change your mind about the title of '...everything new drivers need to know...', because now you're in my territory. I've been working on that book since 1996, and when it's finished you'll see things you've never seen in a driving book before. Until then, Ms. Gravelle's book should be retitled "A Beginning Guide for Drivers" or perhaps "The Gravelle Driving Starter", but should not by any means include the word "everything". Even I, with two driving books already to my credit, would not dare to say that I know everything.
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