SCHOOL ON WHEELS: REACHING AND TEACHING THE ISOLATED CHILDREN OF THE NORTH. Schuessler, Karl and Mary. Erin (Ont.). Boston Mills Press, c1986. 66pp, paper. $9.95, ISBN 0-919783-46-5.CIP Grades 6 and up Reviewed by Jack Brown Volume 15 Number 2 1987 March Ever since the mid-1920s, the arrival of a school car on any of the seven northern Ontario railroad runs was a much-looked-for event. Students travelled on skis and snowshoes, rode on handcars, walked on foot, and paddled in canoes. Some came as far as twenty miles, all drawn to the school car, whose coal oil lamp blazed out into their dark world. The teachers and their families learned to live under the constant pressures of always being on the move. This book is the story of such families, particularly Fred and Cela Sloman's, whose lives were bound up in the railroad car school with its cramped, but comfortable quarters, Sloman's forty years on the rails prompted him to write. "Children, mothers and fathers almost hugged and kissed our school. The hard part was to give them but four days. There was no satisfying their appetite for knowledge." In 1967, the last two school cars were retired. The colourful era of education on wheels serving remote centres came to an end, but one of the cars has been converted into a museum and is on exhibition at Sloman Memorial Park in Clinton, Ontario. The success of the book relies not only on its warm and highly personal text, but also on the fifty-five professional quality human interest photographs showing life aboard the school train. It is a slim volume, but well worth the price, because its appeal is magnetic. Jack Brown, Kingston C.V.I., Kingston, Ont.