This is the book that your children and, to be frank, you, deserve.
It is everything you have ever wanted in a book of this nature and more. In short, I give you Meghan McCarthy’s Firefighters’ Handbook. A reward, if you will, for meeting your children’s needs with books rather than just finding the first firetruck-related YouTube video out there and planting them before it. To these parents and guardians I bestow a gift. I know that these parents will literally pull any work of dreck off of the shelves if it has even a tangential relationship to firefighting. These are children for whom there are not enough firefighting books in all the world enough to satisfy the void inside them that demands more more MORE MORE MORE!!! I know these children. There are kids out there for whom the term “obsession” runs mild. But as I am a children’s librarian, I am aware of an entirely different part of the spectrum.
He didn’t obsess over them, but rather found them a rather delightful diversion, and why not? Fire trucks and engines are big, red, loud, and save lives. Now my kid’s love was what I’d call on the moderate side of the equation. I say this because, like millions of other adults, I have a child that liked fire trucks. I don’t want to intimidate you fine, upstanding citizens, but I fancy myself a bit of a firefighting picture book expert. Paula Wiseman Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster)
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