Synopses & Reviews
It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to know from 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 child and parent having first-day jitters.
Review
"This pleasant package could help youngsters heading off to kindergarten face their first-day fears." School Library Journal
Review
"McGhee debuts for children with a very funny story about a girl who tries desperately to cope with not knowing how to tie her shoes." Kikrus Reviews
Synopsis
This lighthearted take on pre-kindergarten anxiety will bring a smile to the face of every child--and parent--having first-day jitters.
It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to know--from 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 picture book helps turn worry to smiles.
Synopsis
It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to know--from 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--and you're the only one in the class who doesn't know how to tie them up again?
Synopsis
The first team effort from the creators of
Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, now in paperback!
About the Author
Alison McGhee is the author of three novels for adults as well as
Snap, a teen novel, and the picture book
Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Harry Bliss is an award-winning cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. He has also illustrated a number of picture books, and his first, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech, was a New York Times Book Review bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. He lives in Vermont.