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A picture book classic from mom-and-daughter creators Anne and Lizzy Rockwell—helping kids begin to explore careers. On Career Day the children in Mrs. Madoff's class take turns introducing special visitors. Every visitor has something interesting to share, and together the class learns all about the different work people do, from writing books, to working in construction to being a veterinarian. In the fourth Mrs. Madoff book, Anne and Lizzy Rockwell revisit Mrs. Madoff's class as they help young readers explore the question ""What do you want to be when you grow up""

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Useful for units on careers and community helpers. -- School Library Journal, July 14, 2000 Clearly laid out and cheerfully presented, this picture book strikes just the right tone for its intended audience. --ALA Booklist, May 1, 2000 A sparkling, family-centered, no-threat introduction to considerations of what might be fun for little ones to do when they grow up. -- Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2000 Mrs. Madoff's classroom is a charmed place.... -- Kirkus Reviews

Useful for units on careers and community helpers. -- School Library Journal, July 14, 2000 Clearly laid out and cheerfully presented, this picture book strikes just the right tone for its intended audience. --ALA Booklist, May 1, 2000 A sparkling, family-centered, no-threat introduction to considerations of what might be fun for little ones to do when they grow up. -- Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2000

""Useful for units on careers and community helpers.""--""School Library Journal,"" July 14, 2000""Clearly laid out and cheerfully presented, this picture book strikes just the right tone for its intended audience.""--ALA ""Booklist,"" May 1, 2000""A sparkling, family-centered, no-threat introduction to considerations of what might be fun for little ones to do when they grow up.""--""Kirkus Reviews,"" May 15, 2000 ""Mrs. Madoff's classroom is a charmed place....""-- Kirkus Reviews

The mother-daughter team of Anne and Lizzy Rockwell (Thanksgiving Day, 1999, etc.) presents their fourth visit to Mrs. Madoffs busy, bright, and active classroom. Today is career day, when students bring special visitors to school to talk about their work. It may be scary for a child to introduce his or her guest, but the first-person narrator does a fine job of introducing his bulldozer-driving dad, Mr. Lopez. Charlies visitor is his mom, a judge; Kates dad plays bass in an orchestra at night, practices, and handles child-care during the day, while his wife works in a bank. The multicultural class meets a writer, a paleontologist, a school-crossing guard, a nurse, a veterinarian, a sanitation worker, a carpenter, a grocery store manager, and even a student teachers college professor. A full-page illustration shows each worker on the job; smaller details facing these pages introduce them and their host children to readers as well as to the rest of Mrs. Madoffs class. A sparkling, family-centered, no-threat introduction to considerations of what might be fun for little ones to do when they grow up. (Picture book. 2-5) (Kirkus Reviews)

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Anne and Lizzy Rockwell have collaborated on all the Mrs. Madoff books, including St. Patrick's Day and Presidents' Day , and Who Lives in an Alligator Hole? in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. Anne is the author of What's So Bad About Gasoline? ; Brendan and Belinda and the Slam Dunk! ; Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? ; and Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth . Lizzy is the author-illustrator of Good Enough to Eat ; The Busy Body Book ; and Hello Baby! Both Anne and Lizzy live in Connecticut.

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