Officer Buckle and Gloria

Title: Officer Buckle and Gloria
Author: Peggy Rathman
Illustrator: Peggy Rathman
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Picture Book
Theme: Working as a team
Primary and Secondary Characters: Officer Buckle and Gloria/ Mrs. Toppel and students
Awards: Caldecott award
Date of publication: 1995
Publishing Company: G.P. Putman's Sons
Summary: Officer Buckle did safety speech's at local schools through out the year. One day the police department got a police dog named Gloria. When Officer Buckle went to make his safety speech Gloria went along and little did He know that Gloria was acting the safety tips behind him. All the kids in the assembly got really excited and Officer Buckle got invited to do more speech's. Once Officer Buckle realized what Gloria was doing he got mad and stopped doing safety speech's. Gloria went to the speech alone, but it was not the same and there was a major incident at the school. Officer Buckle later got letters from the kids at the school asking him to come back. Officer Buckle then realized that he and Gloria made a good team.
Summary of how to use with students: This book is a good book to use when teaching kids about team work. It shows that not everything can be done by just one person and that sometimes it is good to work as a team. The students can also see that team work is not always easy at first, but in the end it works out for the best. Officer Buckle and Gloria do a good job of showing what it really means to work as a team.