Officer Buckle and Gloria

Officer Buckle and Gloria, by Peggy Rathmann. GP Putnam Sons, 1995.


Officer Buckle loves teaching students about safety, but the students aren’t so interested. When Gloria, the new police dog starts to accompany Officer Buckle on his school presentations, the students start to pay attention. Officer buckle thinks that the students are finally getting serious about safety, hut in fact Gloria is acting out each of the safety tips that Officer Buckle gives. When Officer Buckle finally sees Gloria’s antics during his presentations, he realizes that the kids don’t care about safety the way he thought. Officer Buckle stops going to the schools, and sends Gloria to do the presentations by herself, but everyone discovers that Gloria and Officer Buckle make a good team, and their message is getting across after all!

This book is perfect for young elementary students, as they will enjoy Gloria’s antics as much as the students in the story. The safety tips included are both humorous applicable to daily life, and just like the kids in the book, readers will remember many of these tips as well.