"Stranger Danger" public service announcements are important but rarely come off as anything but heavy-handed and didactic. Even when a favorite team of Pooh creators like Kathleen Zoehfeld and Robin Cuddy do their best, they can't help but fall into a listing of paranoid rules and scenes of dramatic false alarms.

(My Pooh Project: I love Winnie the Pooh, and so does my wife. Having a daughter gave us a chance to indoctrinate her into the cult by buying and reading her every Pooh book we came across. How many is that? I’m going to count them this year by reading and reviewing one every day and seeing which month I finally run out. Track my progress here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/23954351-rod-brown?ref=nav_mybooks&she... ) ( )

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Summary: Safe at home with pooh is a book about Christopher robins safety rules. He is going to his grandmas house and has been taught some new rules to stay safe. He then teaches pooh and piglet the rules so they can stay safe too.

Personal reaction: I really like this book and how it teaches safety rules. As a child my parents had their own set of rules for my sister and I to stay safe. When I have my own classroom and students I will have set rules so it will be a safe learning environment.

Classroom extensions: I think it would be good for students to make a list of safety rules that they know. They could list some that they use at home or that they think they should start using. It would be a good lesson and helpful to remind them to stay safe.

This book has a great premise, which is to teach children about staying safe. In fact, there is a list of Stay Safe rules at the end of the book! Unfortunately, this book about Pooh and Christopher Robin learning when and how to talk with strangers is a bit long for the typical youngster and is long on text. I would only recommend this book to a pre-schooler who likes long books and can sit through them. ( )

This book is a part of the Winnie the Pooh book collection. Christopher Robin finally gets old enough to travel by himself in the 100 Acre Woods to go visit his Grandmother. Attention readers, safety first do not talk to strangers!

My favorite part of the book is when Winnie the Pooh hear a knock on the door, Piglet stops him from answering the door without asking who it is first.

My other favorite part of the book is when the question is asked. Why children should not talk to strangers? Is it rude not to talk to them? The book says it is not rude not to talk to strangers, children can speak to their friends be freindly with them but not to strangers because some strangers are mean.

Also the book give good advice: All strangers are not mean, but because we can not tell just by looking it is better to practice the good safety rule of not speaking to ALL strangers.

I like that part of the book because children often want to know why they are not allowed to speak to strangers.
The book answer the important question for them.

Classroom Extension
1. The teacher can have the students practice looking both ways before crossing a street

2. The teacher can practice different scenarios of who are strangers and who are friends and trusted adults

3. The students can create their own list of good manners and safety rules to follow. ( )