Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Review of "Firefighter Leo to the Rescue!" by Amy Wilhelm & Heather Miranda-Miller



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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