What DO Teachers Do (after YOU Leave School)? (Carolrhoda Picture Books)

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From School Library Journal Kindergarten-Grade 3–After the students leave for the day, the teachers at this school are naughty and noisy and break all the rules: dancing in the gym, roller-skating in the halls, stealing leftovers from the cafeteria, and writing on walls. An enormous food fight results in a chaotic, messy time; when the teachers break into the chem lab, they create their own slime! The rhyming text is mostly fine, but occasionally a bit forced: They change into jeans/and get ready to play./They shout to their friends,/'The day's over! Hooray!' Gott's computer-generated cartoon illustrations are energetic and colorful with lots of whooshy movement and splashy action, supporting the atmosphere of mayhem and fun. Students may enjoy seeing the wild and crazy side of teachers, although the line between having a good time and being disrespectful to school property seems to be crossed here. Still, it's all in good fun.–Mary Hazelton, Elementary Schools in Warren & Waldoboro, ME Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more About the Author Anne Bowen is the author of Tooth Fairy's First Night, which was nominated for the Nevada Young Reader's Award, the Nebraska Golden Sower Award, and the Georgia Picture Book Award. Her book, What Do Teacher's Do (after YOU Leave School)? was a CBC Book Award nominee and a Society of School Librarians International Honor Book. She also wrote When You Visit Grandma and Grandpa, A Children's Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year, and I Know An Old Teacher, which was included in the 100th anniversary edition of the Bank Street College's Best Children's Books of the Year. Anne was a teacher for thirty years. She lives in Ogden, Utah, with her husband. Read more