TITLE:Officer Buckle and Gloria
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR: Peggy Rathmann
GENRE: Comedy
THEME: Safety, teamwork
AWARDS: Caldecott Medal (1996)
CHARACTERS:Officer Buckle and Gloria are the main characters. The students and staff at the schools are the background characters.
PUBLISHING DATE AND COMPANY: This book was published in 1995 by the Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers.
SUMMARY: This is a good book that in a way teaches some safety tips to young readers, but also teaches teamwork, and that without your partner you may not do as well when your by yourself. This book starts out with Officer Buckle going to the schools and telling kids different safety tips. Then the police department he is with buys a police dog named Gloria. When Officer Buckle first takes Gloria with him to the school, he thinks that she sits quietly and still behind him while he reads, and he thinks the kids are learning to enjoy the safety tips. Then, after he becomes so popular and is on the news he realizes that Gloria is acting out what could happen if the safety tips aren't followed. At first Officer Buckle is upset that the kids pay more attention to Gloria than they do him. So the next day, he sends just Gloria to the school, with out him. The students (and Gloria!) fall asleep while Gloria is on stage. Then after the assembly the school has the biggest accident ever, students and teachers falling and slipping. When Officer Buckle gets letters the next day about the accident, he realizes that he and Gloria are a team, and they need to work together.
I would use this book in my classroom to help teach team work, because this book shows that you cannot always do something on your own. Sometimes it takes two (or more) to make it work.
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