It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to knowfrom a first grader about what it's going to be like. You can't bring your cat, you can't bring a stuffed animal, and the number one rule? You can't ask anyone for help. Ever. So what do you do when your shoes come untied, if you're the only one in the class who doesn't know how to tie them up again?
Told with gentle humor by Alison McGhee and brought to exuberant life by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, this lighthearted take on pre-kindergarten anxiety will bring a smile to the face of every childand parenthaving first-day jitters.
Author Biography: Alison McGhee is the author of the novels Shadow Baby and Rainlight , which was awarded the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. This is her first book for children. She lives in Minneapolis.
Harry Bliss is a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker and the illustrator of A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech and Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig. He lives in Vermont.
It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to knowfrom a first grader about what it's going to be like. You can't bring your cat, you can't bring a stuffed animal, and the number one rule? You can't ask anyone for help. Ever. So what do you do when your shoes come untied, if you're the only one in the class who doesn't know how to tie them up again?
Told with gentle humor by Alison McGhee and brought to exuberant life by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, this lighthearted take on pre-kindergarten anxiety will bring a smile to the face of every childand parenthaving first-day jitters.
Author Biography: Alison McGhee is the author of the novels Shadow Baby and Rainlight , which was awarded the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. This is her first book for children. She lives in Minneapolis.
Harry Bliss is a regular cartoonist for The New Yorker and the illustrator of A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech and Which Would You Rather Be? by William Steig. He lives in Vermont.
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ISBN-13: | 9780152055868 |
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Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Publication date: | 07/01/2006 |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 32 |
Sales rank: | 37,032 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.10(d) |
Age Range: | 4 - 7 Years |
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