Emergency! [Paperback]

Gail Gibbons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1995 | Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up

How police, firefighters and others respond to emergencies.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

PreSchool-K-A simple description of emergency personnel and equipment and the vehicles that transport them. Police, paramedics, utility workers, fire fighters, and coast guard rush to answer various calls in a variety of clearly labeled cars, trucks, boats, and flying machines. A historical section describes modes of transport for police and early ambulances and fire trucks. Gibbons's stylistic, flat, colorful illustrations accurately depict the events described in the text and add more for observant readers to interpret. However, they do not depict anyone in danger-no one needs to be rescued from burning buildings, the people on the stretchers appear to be awake, and floating in a life boat doesn't seem very dangerous. This popular subject is often included in general works on the individual services such as Susan Kuklin's Fighting Fires (Bradbury, 1993), but not often as a subject by itself. Peter Lafferty and David Jefferis's To the Rescue (Watts, 1990) is more detailed and is aimed at an older audience, though not out of reach for astute preschoolers. Turn on the sirens and make room on the shelf for this one-but it won't be parked there very long.
Martha Gordon, formerly at South Salem Library, NY
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Booklist

Ages 3-6. The exciting facts in this simple information book will delight all those children who play games about rescue dramas. Clear, brightly colored pictures show dramatic situations in which emergency crews save people from danger. The focus is on their vehicles and specialized equipment: ambulances, fire engines, Coast Guard boats, helicopters, police cars with sirens blaring. There's no sensationalism; with these experts in charge, everything is under control, whether the emergency is at sea, on a snowy mountain, or in a burning house. Kids will want to talk about these pictures and relate them to the fire hydrant on the street and the urgent scenes on the nightly news. Hazel Rochman --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Holiday House (September 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0823412016
• ISBN-13: 978-0823412013
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,408,668 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #78 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Authors & Illustrators, A-Z > ( G ) > Gibbons, Gail

More About the Author

Gail Gibbons has published close to fifty distinguished nonfiction titles with Holiday House. According to "The Washington Post," "Gail Gibbons has taught more preschoolers and early readers about the world than any other children's writer-illustrator." She lives in Vermont. Her website is www.gailgibbons.com

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Emergency, April 17, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Emergency! (Paperback)

Emergency! is a pretty good book I would reckamend this book it is a wunderful I now I all ready said that but fabulous.I like how this book tells us about safety!

5.0 out of 5 stars Response Vehicles., March 5, 2002

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This review is from: Emergency! (Paperback)

This short, yet informative book discusses the various vehicles that emergency services use. Services ranging from the police to the fire department to ambulance services to the Coast Guard are discussed. The book illustrates in action the various vehicles these emergency services use: everything from cars, trucks, boats, helicopters, and even planes. The book is written in a simple manner, yet in such a way that young children become more informed and better understand the jobs of those who serve and protect. The last few pages of the book contains a short history of fire, police, and ambulance vehicles of the past.