Review: I Want to Be a Firefighter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 1, 2014
As a preschool teacher, every October in the United States we celebrate Fire Safety month and this little book is a perfect addition to my small collection about firefighters. We make it a practice to have a firefighter in his full outfit with an oxygen regulator visit the preschool room to give the children the experience of what a mask sounds like and how a fireman will look so if in an emergency they do not hid from the fireman. (The regulators they use are very loud & with every part of the face covered for protection they look scary.)I Want to Be a Firefighter told of what a boy wanted to be and what parts of the job he wanted to do, things like drive the truck. Then in a note the fact was given that firemen have three kinds of trucks. After each job description an interesting fact is given allowing the adult to use the book not only as motivation about learning about what firemen do but also to teach facts about the job and fire. Included are fire safety tips for families and proactive things for children to do about fire safety giving the adult more material to teach using a cute book.The illustrations are lovely with a happy face for the firemen and pictures of the trucks and equipment that they use to give children an idea of what firemen will wear and use to do their job.  TheBrothers put teachable material into this short book for several types of lesson; one to talk about the community helper we depend upon for fire safety, the fireman, two his equipment and facts about the job and three fire safety tips for a child to do with his or her family.  As a teacher and parent I like books that I can read multiple times with different lessons for the children to add interest for the children and keep showing them new lessons using a book to get them across.TheBrothers provided me with a copy of this manuscript with no request for review. The ideas in this review are mine, as an educator of young children.