By Governor Michael F. Easley
Illustrated: By H. Marie Easley
Year of Publication: 2007
The theme is centered on educational aspirations.
This picture book involves characters since the first day of school, or the
first day of a new grade childe with the them. The book opens with children in
classroom playing roles to development in their different aptitudes. They are
sometimes very busy but all the time they find that school is fun to them.
There is always a something to learn or a world to discover around the
classroom. Children in school could to make new friends, reaching the dreams
and climbing toward the growth. Each child is looking up where they want to be.
A new star is on the way.
This book does not include significant
cultural information. The illustrations are perfectly on multiracial
background. There are faces that look as many different Ethnicities as Asian,
African, European and Latino. I think that their names are related not only
with where they are from also with occupational characteristics. For example
Miguel (Latino) wants to build. Chan (Asian) loves numbers. Max (Australian)
loves animals. I think the images are created equally in difference cultures
and skin colors. The language that is used is created to pursue children in to
be better in what they doing and not to forget where they from are and how they
look in this images we can see they make the people to look the way they race
look but didn't show differences in other races.
I think that the less intention with
this kind of book is to show some power form. Illustrations are full on
friends’ relationships. The book encourage those relationships bond with any
difficult. However; this book wisdom encourage children to reach they dreams
and to pursued children to increase the knowledge they already have. In this
book I didn’t found in this book any behavior that are rewarded, or punished.
The governor Michael F. Easley is inside
the group by wrote this book and to make children to underscore the importance
of education as essential to success in life for all students. He knows and understands
that this is the key that every parent wants for their child. He also claim
that this is important to every student life by putting he-self as an example
how far they can be in to never gave up.
The book clearly show that there are no
voices missing. The children voices are hearing by others to let them chose
what they really want to do in the future. There are also voices encourage them
to keep going and to never stop.
Latinos matter of construction
professions; Americans in the communication and political areas and girls seem
in their traditional roles like mommy and teacher. In this book I can read and
see clearly that the race, class, culture, gender and age is not important; and
for the kids is to be successful in their life. However; they encourage
children of any age, class, culture, race and gender to go to college and to
reach they dreams. Cultural and social biases are evident in a good manner.
This book shows clearly how girls and
boys are in the same possibilities to reach their goals. At the same time black
children are being shown like astronauts or inventors. They could make their
dreams a reality life without of color differences.
I clearly recommend this book to help children do so
with enthusiasm and progress their confidence. “There’s lots of learning for
you to do, and you can do it because you’re you.” Sometimes our children need
encouragement, especially in their school beginning. Inspiring picture books
incline our timid kids to enjoy of new adventures. Author sell the main idea of
make child dreams a success, but children must to work hard and uninterrupted.
“Finishing high school is only a star! Never be happy to be in the back.”
Overall, every element mentions to have fun learning and just meeting new
experiences. This could be an interesting factor in the way the kids could have
better social-emotional development.
