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DING-LING-LING!
Through the hole.
Hurry, slip-slide down the pole!
Who are the rescue heroes of Fire Station Number Eight? The Firebears!
Sound the siren, grab the hoses, stretch those ladders. Rescue! With Firebears on the job, no blaze is too big to brave-it's all in a day's work. So put on your fire hat and come for a ride with the fearless rescue crew of Fire Station Number Eight.
Rezensionen (5)
School Library Journal-Rezension
PreS-Gr 2-The alarm rings at Fire Station Number Eight and the Firebears throw on their heavy coats, hats, and boots and race through town with their siren wailing. No job is too big or too small for these amazing bears. First they retrieve a cat stranded high in a tree, then put out a fire in a store, and finally rescue a mother and child from a house billowing with smoke. "Racing, rushing/To the scene-/Firebears, the rescue team!/Round the bend/House on fire!/Raise the ladder-higher, higher!" The action never stops in this fast-moving story. The illustrations, rendered in oils on illustration board, have a retro, naive '50s look and add a light touch to the seriousness of the firefighters' duties. Perfect to read before a field trip, or for a community-helper-themed storytime.-Wendy Woodfill, Hennepin County Library, Minnetonka, MN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly-Rezension
Firebears/ Work and wait/ At Fire Station Number Eight," home to quite possibly the world's cutest public servants. Life as a Firebear has its slow moments; when readers first meet the carmel-colored heroes, they're doing chores around the firehouse or snoozing alongside their pet Dalmatians. But as soon as the call comes, the ursine protagonists head down the pole (the book's orientation momentarily turns vertical) and out into the streets. Gowler's (At Grandma's) concise rhymes bristle with just enough declarative urgency for the preschool set: "Firebears/ Speed through town,/ Siren wailing up and down./ Racing, rushing/ To the scene-/ Firebears, the rescue team!" By book's end, the Firebears have rescued not only the obligatory stranded cat ("Happy kisses, scratchy tongue"), but also extinguished a blazing store and saved the lives of a trapped mother and baby. Although Andreasen works in his customary soft, chunky shapes (it's hard not to be reminded of marshmallows), he nonetheless infuses the firefighting scenes with high drama. The Firebears' truck literally sails through the air (never mind that hats go flying, too), and the bears always sport admirable expressions of determination, bravery, and civic pride. A child can really snuggle up to these role models. Ages 2-4. (June) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book-Rezension
Two of young children's abiding obsessions--animals and firefighting--are fed in this look at a team of bears who spend their days protecting the neighborhood. There's no cumulative payoff--the story amounts to a series of disasters narrowly averted--but the rhymes snap and the illustrations offer the right blend of menace (smoking buildings) and reassurance (toylike bears). (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus-Rezension
Andreasen's 1950s-hued dÉcor adds quaintness to this exceptional look into a day in the life of firemen, or rather, firebears. These cheery-faced, cub-sized civil servants of Fire Station Number Eight are on call night and day. Suddenly, "Ding-Ling-Ling!" Turn the book vertically to see the bears rush, "Through the hole. / Hurry, slip-slide down / the / pole!" The brave firebears race through town in their apple-red fire engine: "Firebears / Speed through town, / siren wailing up and down." Beneath a powder-blue sky, they pass adorable cottages on quiet streets. Their first call of the day is easy: A cat up a tree. But hold on, an urgent message! This time a store's ablaze. The bears douse the fire to a cheering crowd of townsfolk, or rather, town dogs. However, their work is not yet done as again the radio urges them on. Another vertical shows a house billowing gray smoke. This time they must save more than buildings. Green has written an exciting and charming ode to all firefighting heroes, whatever their species, aimed at the young cubs who will love the excitement. (Picture book. 2-5) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist-Rezension
PreS-Gr. 2. A busy day for a firehouse crew begins with a kitten up a tree (dubbed a false alarm, but tell that to the kitten), continues on to a raging fire in a store, the rescue of a mother and child from a burning house, and, finally, a weary return Back again, / Through the gate. . . / At Fire Station Number Eight, as the suns sets. Greene's very simple rhymes caption small-town scenes of polished, toylike buildings, vehicles, and small, round-earred bears in red fire hats and slickers. Although this take on an ever-popular theme may not carry the high drama of Chris Demarest's Firefighters A to Z (2000) and its sequels, children will applaud the heroic deeds of the courageous crew. --John Peters Copyright 2005 Booklist
