Author: Kristin Nelson
Publisher: Lerner Publications Company
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN #: 0-8225-1690-x
Brief Summary: This book is all about what EMTs are and what they do. It describes the supplies EMTs use and things they do to help their patients in a medically accurate yet child friendly way. It also contains a fact sheet and history of EMTs synopsis at the end of the book.
Evaluation: As an EMT, I saw this informational text and knew I had to use it for my blog. I was surprised to see how accurate the author was regarding the information provided and how child freindly the wording was. EMTs can handle violent and dangerous situations and I think the aspects of the job were explained in a way that was appropriate yet informative for young readers. This book really makes an ambulance and the poeple who work on it less scary for kids and I love that! I think all schools should be reading this book to students becuase the chance that they will come across EMTs or an emergency situation is highly likely. The only critique I have is that it is outdated. Medicine, especially pre-hospital medicine, is changing everyday. Many of the facts on the facts page are wrong. For example, there is no longer such a thing as an "EMT-Intermediate", also the supplies shown in the pictures look alot different now, especially the stretchers. If children read this today they probably wouldn't be able to recognize that the supplies they see in the book are the same they might see if on an ambulance or scene of an emergency. The author should write an updated version of the same book because she did an excellent job with this one!
rating: 4 out of 5 Ambulances!
I definitely agree with your comment about the text being out-of-date. Even though I have not read the text, I can tell from the cover art that the book looks older--that seems to be more of a problem for informational texts using photographs than fiction using illustrations.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great book because it is teaching children about jobs in the future while also enhancing their reading abilities!
ReplyDeleteIt's awesome how you found a book about EMTs. I would have never thought there would be a book for children. I agree with you that anything healthcare related is hard to keep up with because it is constantly changing.
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