The story is told effectively with just a few words per page, though younger readers might need help understanding the size and perspective concepts. In the end, they decide they are all hungry and trudge off to eat together. Eventually, these brightly colored animals learn to see things in a different way. Tiny, pink critters then float down by parachute, further complicating the size comparisons. This is followed by a show-stopping double-page spread depicting two huge, blue legs and the single word “Boom!” in huge display type. The purple creature maintains that the orange creature is “big” the orange one counters by calling the purple one “small.” This continues, devolving into a very funny shouting match, pages full of each type of creature hollering across the gutter. While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done.įuzzy, bearlike creatures of different sizes relate to one another in an amusing story that explores the relative nature of size.Ī small purple creature meets a similarly shaped but much larger orange critter. The children in the ink, paint, and collage digital spreads show a variety of emotions, but most are happy to be at school, and the surroundings will be familiar to those who have made an orientation visit to their own schools.
While the days are given ordinal numbers, the song skips the cardinal numbers in the verses, and the rhythm is sometimes off: “On the second day of kindergarten / I thought it was so cool / making lots of friends / and riding the bus to my school!” The narrator is a white brunette who wears either a tunic or a dress each day, making her pretty easy to differentiate from her classmates, a nice mix in terms of race two students even sport glasses.
The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip. Urn:oclc:833119442 Republisher_date 20150113063203 Republisher_operator Scandate 20150104021637 Scanner follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol. Urn:lcp:moreparts00arno:epub:1ce7bf42-2837-4bb3-9498-4cf71d660c0c Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier moreparts00arno Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t23b9771n Invoice 11 Isbn 9780803714175Ġ0029050 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL6781465M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:39:52 Boxid IA1129416 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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