Rita the Rescuer

Author:
Hilda Offen
Illustrator:
Published by:
Puffin Books
Suitable for ages:
4
to
8
ISBN:
Reviewer:
Fotini Hamplova
Reviewer:
Fotini Hamplová

This is a feel-good story about the youngest child in the family. Her siblings think she is not able enough to play with them, but she puts on a super-hero suit and outdoes everyone. She goes out, saves the neighbourhood folk from their various misadventures, stops to have fun and excel at the children’s games, before returning home to become her humble self again.

The story is a little silly, but it is harmless fun and children enjoy it. It draws attention to the reality that: the youngest least able child will not always be so; and that it is not always immediately obvious who is the most heroic and cool person.

This theme seems to intrigue young children who are forever interested on who is the best at everything. This book puts a twist on this theme, and gives courage to the less able children in a group.

It is written as a learning to read book (for an 8 year old roughly) but it can be read aloud to younger children.

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childhood, siblings, loneliness,

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