mehsi's review against another edition
4.0
I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.
Meet Khushi, she wants to be a doctor, and also can I mention that I love that her birthday is just 2 days further from mine (I am a 5th February girl).
Our girl will tell us all about her school, a true American school. Yes, I would call it that, as my elementary school was quite a bit different. We didn’t have a library, just a few bookshelves on a wall. No cafetaria, you just bring your own sandwiches if you stay over for lunch and eat those in a selected classroom with a teacher who watches over the kids. Well, that is if you stay and eat at school, most kids choose to go home and eat lunch there (as it is often just a few minutes of walking or cycling). I would have loved a school mascot, I read a lot about them in books about England/US/Australia and they always sound so awesome. But even though it wasn’t that much relatable to me, I had fun reading about this girl’s school and what her favourite thing was.
This would definitely make a nice present for a kid who is about to go to school for the very first time. To show what is in a school, what kind of things you can expect, maybe easing the worries of the little one a bit more. Knowing that it is a fun place with tons of great activities.
At the end we also have a glossary, and I do like that it was added. Then on some pages there are also the Your Turn! bits asking kids about things that were mentioned on that specific page. Like with the gym the question was: “If you were a gym teacher, what sport would you teach to others and why?”
The art was really fun and cute, and I just loved the style of it.
All in all, a very fun book to read, and I hope that Khushi will return to show some other places as well, or maybe another character can tow us around other important buildings.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Meet Khushi, she wants to be a doctor, and also can I mention that I love that her birthday is just 2 days further from mine (I am a 5th February girl).
Our girl will tell us all about her school, a true American school. Yes, I would call it that, as my elementary school was quite a bit different. We didn’t have a library, just a few bookshelves on a wall. No cafetaria, you just bring your own sandwiches if you stay over for lunch and eat those in a selected classroom with a teacher who watches over the kids. Well, that is if you stay and eat at school, most kids choose to go home and eat lunch there (as it is often just a few minutes of walking or cycling). I would have loved a school mascot, I read a lot about them in books about England/US/Australia and they always sound so awesome. But even though it wasn’t that much relatable to me, I had fun reading about this girl’s school and what her favourite thing was.
This would definitely make a nice present for a kid who is about to go to school for the very first time. To show what is in a school, what kind of things you can expect, maybe easing the worries of the little one a bit more. Knowing that it is a fun place with tons of great activities.
At the end we also have a glossary, and I do like that it was added. Then on some pages there are also the Your Turn! bits asking kids about things that were mentioned on that specific page. Like with the gym the question was: “If you were a gym teacher, what sport would you teach to others and why?”
The art was really fun and cute, and I just loved the style of it.
All in all, a very fun book to read, and I hope that Khushi will return to show some other places as well, or maybe another character can tow us around other important buildings.
Review first posted at https://twirlingbookprincess.com/
ljrinaldi's review against another edition
3.0
On the surface, this is a sweet book, a tour of an elementary school, from the library, to the cafeteria, to the media room, to the gym. The place is well equipped. The students are multicultural, and there are able-bodied, and able-bodied students and teachers about.
It is a sweet little story, introducing children to what school will look like. It is gentle. It is resuring, and it has bright colors.
But, there is something that bothers me.
This might just be a mismatch between illustrator and author, but I have not been to an elementary school this well equipped in a long time. No elementary school I have seen has a cafeteria, and with such good food, and no public school, in the areas that I have lived in, require uniforms.
This is an amazingly well funded school, and it may be my view, from living in California, where the schools do not get the funding they deserve, but I look at the music classes, and the huge library, and the media center, with banks of computers, and I wonder what elementary schools have these things, these days.
If this is typical in the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, then disregard my hesitation in recommending this book, and pick it up.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
It is a sweet little story, introducing children to what school will look like. It is gentle. It is resuring, and it has bright colors.
But, there is something that bothers me.
This might just be a mismatch between illustrator and author, but I have not been to an elementary school this well equipped in a long time. No elementary school I have seen has a cafeteria, and with such good food, and no public school, in the areas that I have lived in, require uniforms.
This is an amazingly well funded school, and it may be my view, from living in California, where the schools do not get the funding they deserve, but I look at the music classes, and the huge library, and the media center, with banks of computers, and I wonder what elementary schools have these things, these days.
If this is typical in the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, then disregard my hesitation in recommending this book, and pick it up.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.
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