Monday 15 July 2019

Book review: "Don't Go to School" by Maire Zepf


⭐⭐⭐ out of 5
 

I'm guessing this is an American book rather than a British one because it's "mommy" instead of "mummy" throughout which might confuse the children listening to the story.

It also makes it sound like the child will be playing all day instead of learning things so it might make the child assume that they will be painting and drawing and running around and listening to stories all day, which will give them a huge shock when they are expected to sit down and behave and learn things that they've never even heard of before, let alone tried.

I appreciate that the author wanted to make school seem fun and full of play which it might be in America but, IME, in the UK the children are expected to learn from 9am to 3.30pm with only an hour at lunch and two fifteen minute play-times a day, which weren't even mentioned in this book.

Maybe it's a first day at NURSERY school that this book was aimed at rather than Primary school which I was hoping for.

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