About This Book:
A friendly, fascinating book about how to work in the crime-fighting industry, written by Detective Constable Alexandra Beever.
Do you have what it takes to become a detective, a crime scene investigator, or a forensic scientist? Find out all about the incredible crime-fighting jobs you could do, from training to become a crime laboratory analyst or a lawyer to working as a helicopter pilot or even becoming an expert in fingerprints.
This fully illustrated book will inspire any child with an interest in helping people and fighting crime.
Other titles in the series include: How to Be an Astronaut and Other Space Jobs; How to Be a Vet and Other Animal Jobs.
*Review Contributed by Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
What do you want to be when you grow up?
I love that there are some tips for young readers who are interested in detective work, and suggestions that they start paying closer attention to things that happen around them. There is also a list of organizations to explore.
I particularly enjoyed the history timeline, which included Kate Warne of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, who became the world’s first woman detective in 1856. That, combined with the fact that the first detective novel was by the US author Edgar Allen Poe, really made me wonder why the British have so many more detective shows and books than the US does. The author, Detective Beever, is a police detective in the UK.
This is a bit more advanced than Hische’s Who Will U Be, but more focused on a single type of career than MacIsaac and Nelson’s See It, Dream It, Do It. So many of my students want to be video game designers or social media influencers that I would love to see a new series like the 1950s Carla Greene Children’s Press “I Want to Be a…” books, but with jobs like coders, engineers, and, well, still teachers!
