BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) - ESSENTIAL.
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
If I Were President is a colorful and clever book about a young boy and the imaginative, playful and thought-provoking things he says he would do if he were the president. The author strikes the perfect balance between silly and profound with his character’s presidential ideas. My personal favorite 2-page spread says “If I were president, playing would be a subject they taught at school, and grown-ups would have to go to kindergarten once a month to learn how to do it. Because playing is for everyone, even the people who have forgotten how."
The illustrations are a fun mix of intentional crayon scribbles, inky fingerprints used for things like treetops and ocean waves, and well-drawn characters (animal and human) that kids will love. The main character has dark skin, glasses, and curly dark hair, and the background characters are diverse in race, age, gender, and ethnicity. This is a fantastic book to get kids’ creative juices flowing and even ends with a small challenge for the reader to think of things the main character missed and share their ideas with their friends.
Reviewer: Angie Campbell, EL librarian
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