All the Ways to Be Smart by Davina Bell and Allison Colpoys
(Scribble) HB RRP $24.99 ISBN 9781925713435
Reviewed by
Dianne Bates
‘Every hour
of every day, we’re smart in our own special way’ reads the penultimate page of
this rhyming picture book for readers aged 4 to 7 years. Presented in
mostly greens, oranges, blues and browns, the book shows children interacting
with a host of beings, some other children and some monsters and some people
like pirates, witches and clowns.
The aim of
the book is to show the reader ‘how smart you are the whole day through’.
Numerous children, such as a red-haired boy, a brown girl, a boy wearing glasses
and numerous others are shown being smart in numerous ways. These include being
talented in arts and crafts: ‘Smart at drawing things with claws/facts about
the dinosaurs’, and in treating other people humanely: ‘Smart is kindness when
there’s crying’.
Basically,
the book is a list of ways in which children can be smart, presented in rhyming
couplets. It would read well aloud and allow small children to feel that they
are accomplished as they recognise the skills which they already possess.
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