Fire Fighters by Norma Simon

Book Genre: Informational Fiction

Publishing Info: Scholastic Inc, 32 pages

Awards or honors received: None

Summary: Using Dalmation dogs as characters to act as firefighers, this book describes to the reader what happens from when the fire bell rings to getting to the fire and helping the people. Then the author explain how firefighters try to see how the fire started, and how the firefighters put away their equipment and go back to wait for the fire bell to ring again

Personal rating and reason for rating: **** Great. This book is awesome. Besides the illustrations being unrealistic, all of the information about firefighters is completely fact. It is a great way for young children to learn about the job of firefighters.

Reading level: 2.0

Interest level: k-2

Possible uses of the text in integrated units of study (reading and writing across the curriculum): Using this book as an informational read aloud during fire safty week would be a good idea. Also before a field trip to the fire department. Also would be a good read aloud for young children during a community helpers social studies lesson. It does an awesome job explaining the job of a fire fighter.

Potential Problems or Difficulties: I didn't see any