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Reviewed by Ginna Lamkie for Readers' Favorite
Stranger Awareness by Mark A. Anderson is a children’s book teaching kids about common situations that may arise with strangers. Examples include: someone the child doesn’t know asking for directions; trying to give them goodies like ice cream; and when someone says they are a friend of the child’s parent. The children in the story then react. The last page tells how each child reacted in the correct way to keep themselves safe. The illustrations were done by Ian M. Lowry.
Many lessons covered in this book are familiar to me. These are the same scenarios we were taught 20 years ago when I was a child. These are all good lessons to teach our children now. I think we need to be repetitive to instill these ideas into our children so that knowing a dangerous situation when they see it becomes automatic and there is no hesitation to keep themselves safe.
That being said, I do feel that including more modern problems, such as internet phishing, would have made this book more relevant. Some of the illustrations were used more than once, but I did find them quite charming. I did however feel that the “strangers” looked quite predictably like “bad guys.” I always make sure to caution my son that he should be aware of stranger danger from anyone. Just because someone looks scary does not make them a bad person, and just because someone looks like a very nice person does not mean they can be trusted.
