What Will I Be?

Review also includes:

Choices, Choices…, 978-1911402008

These two books, the first aimed at girls and the second aimed at boys, are unusual in that they star quite young children who are already considering what kind of jobs they might do when they grow up.  In rhyme that is comic and fun, they think up lots of possibilities, some of which seem more likely than others!  The illustrations in cartoon style feature such details as a fish sticking its tongue out at the boy who is picturing himself under the sea as a marine biologist, or the girl as a doctor peering at an x-ray of someone who has swallowed a key!  While the theme is of occupations from the high-powered to the basic, the aspect is very much one of humour.  Both boy and girl consider jobs that are not sex specific.  Both children are black, and as their features are emphasised as often happens in cartoon style, some might find this aspect of the illustrations a trifle non politically correct.