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The drawings are all in the most pleasing shades of blue and yellow, with touches of brown, gray, and tan for animals and faces. There is a real art to using a limited color palette, and this makes the pictures really pop. I'm surprised at all of the situations that can be depicted with these two main colors!

I enjoyed the fact that each type of protective gear was shown on adults in work environments first, and then on children. There was also a pleasing symmetry to the entries with a lot of onomatopoetic words splashed about the pages in larger fonts that helped the story move along more quickly, and also makes it more fun to read.

There is a British feel to this; there are at least two pictures of school children in the classic UK type uniform; wouldn't it be nice if all US students had to wear dark trousers and sweater vests?

Books on safety tend to be somehow odd, quickly dated, and sometimes... questionable, so I'm not going to list other books like this, because I can't think of any. This is just a good overview of different types of safety equipment, but feels timeless, even with some school children wearing face masks on the bus. It's just some food for thought for young readers, and I very much appreciate that one of the very first types of gear mentioned is a helmet, and it's shown on children who are riding bikes. Never too early to learn how important it is to wear THAT.