What Should I Wear To Work?

How unique and intriguing! I’ve never seen an interactive book where the young reader gets to pick out proper clothing for various occupations! As an adult, even I had fun looking through the options to pick out the appropriate gear to fit each situation. The crazy outfits each person starts with are humorous and readers get a chance to explore various activities shown. This would be a good gift for a young child as there’s the ability to actually write in the book if you own it. A public library might find this book returned with articles of clothing circled by the borrower.

They use some not well known jobs to see how children react. This would be good to have at a home library or a book for kids to read for fun in the classroom.

I really wanted to like “What Should I Wear to Work”, however, it felt a bit short from my perspective. I am not certain if the set-up or arrangement of the pages or the illustrations themselves, however, it appeared as ore of a silly book versus picking out the correct outfits.

The silly outfits were cute, but the direction of what the book was looking to accomplish felt lost. It is a great idea, I just wonder if it would have been more impactful if presented differently.

Thank you to both NetGalley and Albatros Media for providing me the opportunity to review "What Should I Wear to Work” prior to publication . I am appreciative and leave my review voluntarily.

This is a silly story of people wearing the wrong things to work. The opposite page has what they should really wear. It is fun to think about what if they wore the wrong things!

I can imagine young kids going through this book time and again, poring over the pictures of people in the wrong work clothing and marveling over new things they notice each time they look. I love the message of this book, about how the utility of clothing changes depending on what you want to do. This is a concept that's hard for kids to understand as they don their favorite pajamas to play in the snow or insist on wearing a bathing suit to kindergarten. Jana Sedlackova shows with humor, accuracy and energy how a mask suitable for the opera will not protect a firefighter, and how hiking boots, while sturdy and practical for many things, won't help a ballet dancer get through her performance. Each page spread gives the humorous depiction of a person wearing a wildly inappropriate selection, and on the other side is a labeled collection of what that person would wear, plus the equipment they'd use. For example, a firefighter would use a ladder, fire extinguisher, axe and so on, in addition to the specialty clothing. A nice book that will be enjoyed by a wide variety of children. #netgalley