Dom and I love to read together.  Rather, I read while he flips the pages so quickly that I can’t keep up.  Same difference.

We check anywhere from 5 – 15 children’s books out of the library each week.  We also have an extensive children’s collection on our own bookshelves.  There are some books that Dom and I love so much that I want to share them with other parents.  So I figure that I’ll do that once a week or so.  Here is this week’s book corner…

The Little Fireman by Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown has written many children’s books now considered classics.  It just so happens that she wrote a few about two of Dom’s favorite topics – trains and fire trucks.  This story is her venture into the life of firefighters.

The opening page of the story lays the foundation.  This is a book about opposites. 

 once upon a time there was a
 great big tall fireman

 and once upon a
 time there was a 
 little fireman

The two firemen live in firehouses next door to each other, and they are very similar…except that everything the big tall fireman owns is big, and everything the little fireman owns is small.  From their dogs to their fire trucks to their fire bells, they are opposites.  Even the fonts are different – descriptions of the big tall firefighter are larger than those of the little firefighter.

Every firefighter book needs fire action, and this one is no exception.  Each fireman finds a fire his own size to fight and they each save the day. 

This is a great book for introducing and studying opposites.  There is enough action to satisfy the antsiest kid.  And it is by Margaret Wise Brown…I don’t think she ever wrote a bad book.