How do you say 'school bus' in Italian? It's in here

Ask a child how to say 'school bus' in Italian and the answer is more obvious than they expect: SCUOLABUS, school plus bus, nine letters. AUTOBUS is the ordinary bus, NAVE a ship, CANOA a canoe, CAMION a truck and BICICLETTA a bicycle. Every one of them is hidden somewhere in the grid, running across or down, with a picture to say which is which. Nothing needs spelling; the whole task is spotting and circling.

SCUOLABUS and AUTOBUS share their last three letters, which makes them the pair to be careful with — find one, and the eye wants to see the other in the same place. BICICLETTA is ten letters and the longest word here, so it is the reliable first catch. NAVE and CANOA, at four and five, are the ones that vanish into the filler. Hunt those two deliberately.

Vehicles are the vocabulary children ask for first, which makes this a natural early sheet — print it for a journey and half the words are out of the window anyway. CAMION is the odd one: borrowed from French, and said with the stress at the end rather than the start. BICICLETTA rewards being read slowly, since its two Cs are not sounded the same way. The first is soft, the second hard.