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A review by ljrinaldi
This Is My School by Mark Weakland
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.