wow!

Robert Neubecker's Wow! School! is definitely on the lower end of our age range. Each page says "WOW! _________!" with the blank being the illustration. And the pages follow an ordinary school day so there's wow! classroom! and wow! lunch! and wow! art! and wow! math!, wow! etc! But the real reason I picked this book up was for the illustrations. For the magnificent, colorful, two-page illustrations. The book is a little over-sized and Neubecker jampacks all sorts of scenes and images into every page. He kind of creates text with pictures because it takes all of two seconds to read the words but you could spend a few minutes dissecting the illustrations. One of the kids I work with had a wonderful time looking at all of these pictures. He even realized that the same dog appears on almost all of the pages. Wow! School! makes going to school look so amazing and fun, somehow capturing all the magic of the classroom, that it reminded me why I wanted to become a teacher in the first place...and I don't think you could ask for much more from a book.