Review: Learning (and enjoying) by looking!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 8, 2013
S.I.A.  takes a different and very entertaining stance for writing children's stories. Through a sound progression of images and ideas the author allows children to identify the significant `costumes' the true enough could be Halloween costumes, but they are also the `costumes' worn by people in different occupations. Instead of the usual scary outfits, these are the everyday costumes children learn to identify (and read) through a fun book.The costumes the author/illustrator shares include a plumber, a traffic controller, and elevator operator (granted, of yesteryear!), and English gentleman, a boxer, a chimney sweep, an opera singer, a man in construction, a cyclist, a cowboy, a DJ, a male nurse, a doctor, a farmer, a fireman, a fisherman, a horse groomer, a green recycler worker, a gardener, a high school graduate, a traveler/hiker, a hunter, a judge, a knight in armor, a postman, a racing driver, a painter, Superman!, a Hawaiian guitarist, a pilot, and English policeman (bobby), a teacher, a hippie, a scout, a diver, a sleepy man, a soldier, a super hero, a swimmer, and a librarian. Many choices for children to imagine, to emulate, and to understand the `look' of certain everyday professions or work outfits.The added entertainment here is that for every new `costume' the spelling of that costume is offered - a terrific idea for learning how to read form images and to learn how many variations of work and costumes there are!  Another winning little book for children to enjoy as entertainment and absorb as learning. Grady Harp, September 13