Series titles x5: 1 (People Who Help Us)

by Alison Cooper (Author), Alison (Author), Alison Cooper (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $7.43

  This book is taken from a series which introduces the reader to people who help the community through the jobs that they perform. Each book focuses on an individual member of the featured public or emergency services; the experiences of their working day are used to illustrate the importance of their role in the community. Wherever possible, care has been taken to make those experiences relevant to those of the reader. This book is about Tony, a charge nurse in an accident and emergency unit of a large hospital. The authors focus on a particular incident in which a child falls off her bike and is taken to the accident department. They use this incident to explain various procedures: being X-rayed; having a plaster cast made and having stitches. By showing how Tony helps the child in this situation, the authors hope to make the prospect of hospital treatment less traumatic for other children. There is a dual-level text, to help younger or less able readers.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $3.25

  This series introduces children to people who help the community through the jobs that they perform. Each book focuses on an individual member of the featured public or emergency service, and uses their experiences to illustrate the importance of their role. The author focuses on those experiences which are most relevant to the young reader. This book is about Brian, a RNLI mechanic based at Bembridge on the Isle of Wight, and his fellow crew members. The author describes in simple terms what happens when the crew is called out: how they are contacted; what has to be done before the lifeboat can be launched down the slipway, what some of the equipment on board is used for, and how they rescue a windsurfer who has been swept out to sea. It has a dual-level text to help younger or less able readers.