What do Teachers do after you Leave School - Children's Choice List

This Children's Choice List book, What do Teachers do After you Leave School, was written by Anne Bowen and illustrated by Barry Gott. The story is about what teachers do once the student's go home. The teachers basically act like a bunch of unruly kids doing everything the student's would love to do at school if the teachers would let them. The teachers change into jeans, go on the slides, rollerskate down the hallway, play basketball in the gym, eat pizza and candy, have a huge food fight, build towers and dance and make slimey goop soup in their secret lab. When the Principal comes to find the teachers, she says it looks like fun and joins in until the next morning. At quarter past six, all the teachers frantically begin cleaning the school before the students come back. When the school bell finally rings, all the teachers are standing by their classroom doors greating the children. They tell them, "the school felt so empty. It's good to see you! We missed you last night...there was nothing to do!"

The illustrations in this book are what make it so amazing. They are computer generated full bleads and each illustration adds more meaning to the story. At the very end, when the teachers say that there was nothing to do, in the illustrations there is a little girl looking up at the ceiling where some of the slime goop is dripping. There is also another little boy in the background looking at a puppy in the water fountain! Overall I thought this was a great book and it would be perfect to read to your students as a humorous book about what teachers really do because student's really do believe that their teachers live at school. They don't think that teachers go home after school to their own families, they just think they are always there because they're there when the students get there and stay once the students leave.

This book is a favorite among many teachers, students and parents. In sales, it ranked in the top 100 Bestsellers, the top 100 Young Adult Fiction Bestsellers and the top 100 Humorous Stories Bestsellers

Bowen, Anne. What DO Teachers do after YOU Leave School? Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc. 2006.