Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Fire Chief Fran by Linda Ashman and Nancy Carpenter - ESSENTIAL

Fire Chief Fran by Linda Ashman, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter
. PICTURE BOOK. Astra Young Readers, 2022. $18. 9781635924268

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ESSENTIAL

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH

Fire Chief Fran and her firefighters are going about their day when - CLANG - the bell goes off and their are off to rescue and help their community.

So much fun! Ashman does a great job with the rhyming text to keep it from being sing-songy - varying the different stanzas and adding a great shout out portion to keep young students engaged. Carpenter's illustrations show us all of the action, and includes a variety of skin tones and genders. There is a little bit of back matter about firefighters and includes statistics about female firefighters in particular.

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS 

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