Rating: 4.5
There really isn't much to this big series of books, but they are each so cute and engaging that they're worth a blurb here and a check out there. They are basic, introductory books on which you can expand if you want--or, if you're just pooped, you can just read it and save the extension exercises for another day.
I do learn a few facts with every book; on the front and back inside cover are fun tidbits about school: that the world's largest peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich contained 150 pounds of peanuts and 50 pounds of jelly. Or that more than 450,000 school buses transport close to 24 million students in the U.S. to school every day. I appreciate that Sturges throws this stuff in for the older reader--whether that's 4 or 5 or, in my case, 34.
Since Lorelei is starting preschool in just five or six weeks, I am keeping a constant flow of books about school, about starting school, about making friends at school, and anything that has any positive vibe about school. I really do think she'll do fine in the transition--when we moved from the Mommy and me gymnastics class to the "big girl" Mommy-sits-on-the-sides class she didn't look back once, and her crying fits of "I don't want to do that!" disappeared completely. So I think she's ready. I think. I hope. Am I ready? I don't know.
The other books in this series:
I Love Trucks!
I Love Trains!
I Love Bugs!
(review here)I Love Tools!
I Love Planes!
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