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A review by junelaurens
Dear Teacher by Jack Sheffield
5.0
After reading this book, I want to be a teacher living in an idyllic village in Yorkshire!!
It's written in the style of a teacher relating his memoires of being a Head of a village primary school in Yorkshire in 1979. It's possibly *too* idyllic, *too* perfect and maybe a bit twee for some people but hey, it's escapism, and in our modern world of financial crises and political unrest, don't we all need an escapist world to go to?
I remember reading the Miss Read books when I was at school, and Jack Sheffield's novels are just like them. He is, effectively, Mr Read. I was at primary school in the late 1970s, so I appreciated the mentions of the "fads" in pop songs and TV shows that Sheffield puts into his stories. In fact, I enjoyed "Dear Teacher" so much, I have downloaded some more of his books onto my Kindle, and am looking forward to his newest offering "Educating Jack".
In a nutshell, I loved it!
It's written in the style of a teacher relating his memoires of being a Head of a village primary school in Yorkshire in 1979. It's possibly *too* idyllic, *too* perfect and maybe a bit twee for some people but hey, it's escapism, and in our modern world of financial crises and political unrest, don't we all need an escapist world to go to?
I remember reading the Miss Read books when I was at school, and Jack Sheffield's novels are just like them. He is, effectively, Mr Read. I was at primary school in the late 1970s, so I appreciated the mentions of the "fads" in pop songs and TV shows that Sheffield puts into his stories. In fact, I enjoyed "Dear Teacher" so much, I have downloaded some more of his books onto my Kindle, and am looking forward to his newest offering "Educating Jack".
In a nutshell, I loved it!