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Consider the importance in encouraging children to see the good in a wide variety of occupations. Joshua Page helps us consider the trade of being an electrician and hints at learning about being a plumber. What other occupations can your youth consider? A carpenter maybe? Consider the value of working in the trades and help your children consider them as well.
Basic Details
Title: What Does Your Daddy Do?
Author: Joshua Page
Formats available: Kindle, Paperback
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Pages: 44
Intended Audience: 4-9 years old
Genre: Family Life, School issues, careers
Reviewed For: News 21 AM
About the Author:
Joshua Page is a husband, father, and entrepreneur. He is passionate about getting kids involved with the trades. He has been featured on many podcasts, a TEDx speaker, and a motivational public speaker. When not busy running his electrical companies and inspiring others, he loves to spend time with his family.
Synopsis:
In his new children’s book, What Does Your Daddy Do?, Page introduces young readers to Ashton, whose fifth-grade class is having career week. Ashton isn’t sure exactly what his dad does, so he goes home and asks him. Ashton then gets to learn about all the cool work his dad does as an electrician and all the interesting tools he gets to use. As career week continues, all the students get to share stories about what their parents do.
Looking Deeper into What does your daddy do?
What does your daddy do? alternates full-colour images with plain pages of text. The story takes us into the curious mind of an elementary boy asking his dad what he does. Thusly we are taken into the life of an electrician working small and large jobs.
I expected to have the story written at a bit higher level as these are upper elementary children having this discussion, but I found the writing geared to younger children. None-the-less the story told the basic work of an electrician. I would have loved to have some discussion about the exact type of work that an electrician does. For instance, how running pipes and wires can help a water slide work, or fixing a light switch can prevent fires, or just help someone read a book. Just so more of the practical hands-on of the trade of an electrician.
The brightness of the illustrated pages is attractive don’t you think? The consistency in the colour palette and the clarity in the illustrations help bring the story to life.
Add to your shelves?
I have to admit, I’m not sure what I think. He talks about this being with a fifth-grade class, but I don’t find that it’s written with fifth-graders in mind. It’s written more for younger children. So that incongruity threw me off.
But he does a good overview of describing some of what an electrician does, helping people with their wiring and other electrical issues. I could easily see this becoming a series as Sofia needed to learn what a plumber does. The sheer number of trades you could cover would be fantastic.
I really liked how Ashton’s dad explained what an electrician did to Ashton, and then Ashton had to take the knowledge back to his classroom. That continuation of learning in What Does your Daddy Do? is part of what intrigues me about this title.
Personally, I think it’s fantastic to bring the trades to life for our children. Helping them to see the possibilities of what they might wish to do as they mature. I do hope that Mr. Page continues this series, considering a whole range of occupations from Hair stylists, carpenters, daycare workers, as well as tool and die makers. It’s fantastic to expose children to a wide range of occupations to help keep their options open.
I really like the idea of a series like this. We really need to have more people pursuing trades.
So Do I Lori!