Lockdown Drill, The

Name: Lockdown Drill, The
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Becky Coyle
ISBN: 9781520077536

Author: Becky Coyle

Narrator: Susie Berneis

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Published: 06/27/2017

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes

Synopsis

The Lockdown Drill teaches students the importance of listening to their teacher and their school resource officer during school drills. Using fun characters and engaging rhymes, The Lockdown Drill explains safe emergency practices to young children in a non-threatening manner. In her work as an elementary-school resource officer, Becky Coyle learned firsthand how misinformation can affect student performance during emergency procedures and was inspired to create this School Safety series to explain school safety to young children in a fun and engaging way.

About Becky Coyle

Becky Coyle combines her passion for writing and her work as a deputy sheriff and school resource officer to create informative and engaging books that help children understand the importance of safety in their schools. She lives in Tennessee with her husband John and their two dogs, Rookie and Cadet, and she is the proud mother and grandmother of four wonderful children and five exceptional grandchildren.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy

I understand the need for a book that covers this subject matter-great idea! --especially to preview with young students what happens during a lockdown drill, but I think this was a missed opportunity. The book could have been still engaging without the rhyming. At times while reading, I felt confus......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

Deputy Becky Coyle offers an epic poem about the uproar that occurred during a practice school lockdown. Coyle means well, and it is unfortunate that the times we are living in call for books on topics such as this, but this is not going to be useful. In this story, the kids are dressed, prepping fo......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

The Lockdown Drill by Deputy Becky Coyle. A lockdown book in friendly terms written by a cop. Despite my extremely strong feelings about what happened with law enforcement during Uvalde and feeling like I’m on my own, I know most law enforcement would’ve ran inside without a second thought. I know w......more

Goodreads review by Addia

I think this book is a great introduction for students who may be in kindergarten and are just learning about this new thing called lockdown drills. It does a great job of showing how they should not act during a lockdown drill and then it ends with them practicing again but doing it the right way.......more