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Title: Adorable, sweet, outdated, teachable moments!
Review: This is a lovely, classic, tidily illustrated book. Simply written and engages preschool age children. As others have pointed out, there are many alarming events - the family returns to the burning home to save their furniture. No one seems to notice that one of the children is still inside the house until she shouts from a window (she may have gone back in to save the cat). And bizarrely, after thoroughly dousing the home and chopping a hole in the roof, the firefighters tell the family to just move right back in. My kids have learned that they should never go back into a burning building, so when we read this we can point out all the things that one should NOT do as the come up in the story. So you get some teachable moments, as well as a thorough understanding of the pumper trucks of the 1940's to boot.
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