Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten

Joseph Slate. Dutton Children's Books, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-525-46710-6

Everyone's favorite canine teacher is back for an alphabetical tour of the community in Miss Bindergarten Takes a Field Trip with Kindergarten by Joseph Slate, illus. by Ashley Wolff. The class meets the people who keep their neighborhood going and joins the proceedings, as Danny cuts out cookies at the bakery and Miss Bindergarten herself slides down the pole in the firehouse. ( July)

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