Let’s Get Ready for School

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Let’s Get Ready for School

Jane Porter and Carolina Rabei

(Walker)- hardback

Let’s Get Ready for School. It seems there is so much to prepare and learn. For example you might feel nervous or excited or even ‘a little bit of both‘. Within this picture book are children who feel the same way and even ‘a little bit worried too’. However, that’s ‘only natural’.

There are tips to help you ‘warm up’ like putting on a coat by yourself, or knowing which shoe to put on which foot. Maybe you know how to ‘peel a satsuma‘ or that you should ‘wash [your] hands with soap after‘ going to the toilet.

This book explains why going to school is ‘useful and interesting’, that ‘the things you learn at school will help you do exciting things when you’re older’. 

Through including children who practise and undertake the actions introduced, we are informed. Thereafter we consider the journey to school that we might take and then how to ‘say hello’. There is such reassurance from the people to the setting. We learn about the ‘carpet for listening time‘ and that there might be ‘special jobs‘ about which you can ‘take turns’.

Jane Porter is such a capable writer and illustrator. It feels as though we are in good hands. What’s more the pictures in this book are fulsome, diverting, encouraging and so inclusive. Carolina Rabei considers the impact of the words beautifully.

Like Ready, Steady, School! this is an encouraging, engaging and beautiful picture book. Bookwagon recommends Let’s Get Ready for School wholeheartedly.