Miss Mingo and the fire drill

Format:

Book

Title:

Miss Mingo and the fire drill

Author:

Harper, Jamie.

ISBN:

9780763635978

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Summary:

All of the animals in the class face their fear of danger and practice wholeheartedly what their teacher Miss Mingo and the fire fighter Chief Grizzly teach them to do in a fire drill with excellent results. Includes a brief description of the defense mechanisms that animals use to protect themselves from danger.

Reading Level:

Preschool.

Subject(s):

Fire drills -- Juvenile fiction.

Fire alarms -- Juvenile fiction.

Fire fighters -- Juvenile fiction.

Animal defenses -- Juvenile fiction.

Animals -- Juvenile fiction.

Fire drills -- Fiction.

Fear -- Fiction.

Safety -- Fiction.

Animals -- Fiction.

Flamingos -- Fiction.

Teachers -- Fiction.

Schools -- Fiction.

Genre:

Picture books for children.

picture books.

Fiction.

Juvenile works.

Children's stories -- Pictorial works.

Holds:

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Summary

"Children will love the story for its charm and rollicking fun, and the salient points will make a lasting impression. A top choice for Fire Prevention Week." -- School Library Journal

Stop! Drop! Roll! Learning the rules of fire safety is a lot more fun (and less scary) when demonstrated by a charming and diverse group of animals. Alligator, Panda, Octopus, and the others work hard to master the rules of fire safety and perform the perfect fire drill, but thinking about fire is a bit nerve-wracking, and each of them reacts differently -- often with hilarious results. Sprinkled with fascinating facts about animal behavior, this second story about the characters in Miss Mingo's one-of-a-kind class is sure to appeal to readers of all stripes.

Author Notes

Jamie Harper is the author-illustrator of the first book about this feisty flamingo teacher, MISS MINGO AND THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. She lives outside Boston.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

K-Gr 2-Miss Mingo, a pink flamingo, and her diverse animal students are back. As she begins to prepare the class for fire drills, they become anxious. "Panda started barking. Elephant trumpeted." Miss Mingo assures them all that with practice, they will know what to do. Fire Chief Grizzly visits and talks about "Stop!" "Drop!" and "Roll!" When the teacher leaves the room for lunch and the cafeteria monitor takes her place, an enormous sneeze from Hippo sends the other students into evacuation mayhem. Fortunately, their mistake prepares them for the real drill later in the week. Throughout the book, factual notations about the animals' defense mechanisms appear in small print. "When danger threatens, the proboscis monkey honks loudly, and its large, fleshy nose swells and turns red." The accompanying watercolor-and-ink illustration shows a comical creature whose nose is twice the size of his head. Harper's silliness helps deliver the well-articulated and important lessons about emergency behavior. Children will love the story for its charm and rollicking fun, and the salient points will make a lasting impression. A top choice for Fire Prevention Week.-Mary Hazelton, Elementary Schools in Warren & Waldoboro, ME (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.