Review of
Firefighter
Leo to the Rescue! by Amy Wilhelm & Heather
Miranda-Miller ISBN 9781635351163
Five out of five stars
This is an
excellent book describing what is a common play theme for children, pretending
to be a firefighter. Leo is a boy that has aspirations to role playing as a
firefighter, but he is uncertain as to exactly what firefighters do and how to
accurately emulate them. In this book, Leo is stepped through the process of
determining what firefighters do so that he can pretend to do their job.
Early in the
book there is the very important sentence, “Before Leo can play firefighter, he
needs to think about everything he knows about firefighters.” This hooked me on
the book immediately, for the young reader is being instructed to research
their play topics. something that I have rarely seen in books for children.
There are those
that might consider this to have a dampening effect on play, but that is
nonsense. Children try to be as realistic as they can in their play and the
child that researches their topic before engaging in their pretending will have
more fun. Especially when it is a job category that is so critical to society
and regularly featured on television.
Parents will
find this to be a quality book, it can accurately be described as an
educational primer for make-believe.
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