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If Babies Went To School

		6.0
		0.0 (0)

Added by Mamma B October 16, 2010

Book Info

Author	Barbara Lock
Illustrator	Gus Tarantino
Publisher	AuthorHouse, 2010
Genres	Basic Concepts • Family & Friends • Fantasy / Make Believe • Humorous • Lessons / Behavior
Age Range	Toddler • Preschool • K through 2nd

What would happen if kids brought their baby brothers and sisters to school with them?

Barbara Lock wrote "If Babies Went to School" as a way to introduce critical thinking and inductive reasoning to children.

If Babies Went To School
6 out of 10 based on 1 reviews.

Mamma Bookworm review

A good classroom book

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

If Babies Went To School by Barbara Lock is a book mainly for grade school children to start deductive reasoning. Brother and sister, Brian and Amanda, discuss what would happen if they brought their little brother, Luke, to school and if all the other kids brought their family babies as well.

The book discusses things like what the babies would eat, how they would get to school, what they would do there, and what kind of trouble they would probably get into.

While I really like the concept of the kids really thinking about the reality of what would happen, both the pros and cons of bringing a baby to school, I think there could have been a bit more actual story/plot involved. Even in the very first page we seem to have walked into the middle of a conversation already in progress. I did like the fact that they also went into multiple scenarios with the idea of the babies at school, not just a few basic simple examples.

The illustrations were alright, just basic colored pencil with white backgrounds. Some of the pages were a lot better than others - including the cover. There was nothing wrong with them, but not really anything special either.

I think my best suggestion for this book might be a 1st or 2nd grade classroom setting with a follow up assignment. Read the book aloud in class and then have the students come up with three more ideas of what the babies could do at school and how that would work out. This book would be fine for at home as well, but as I said before, without an actual story involved I wonder how often a child would want to read it over again.

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