When U Go to Kindergtn
James Howe, Betsy Imershein. Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, $5.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-394-87303-9
Howe, who wrote The Hospital Book, puts the first year of school into a clear context that is at once familiar and reassuring to would-be kindergartners. Using various schools, teachers, classrooms and ""other kids,'' the book addresses notions so simple that some adults would overlook them: who will help children cross streets when their parents aren't around (a safety-patrol guard); how will they know which classroom they're supposed to be in; what will the bathrooms look like; how muchor how littlewill the other kids know. The photographs are suitably straightforward; school still looks like a brand-new experience, but a fun one. For all those normal fears and questions, this book has the answers, and gets them right. (4-5)
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Reviewed on: 06/01/1986
Hardcover - 48 pages - 978-0-394-97303-6
Hardcover - 45 pages - 978-0-688-12912-5
Library Binding - 1 pages - 978-0-688-12913-2
Paperback - 48 pages - 978-0-688-14387-9
Prebound-Other - 1 pages - 978-0-606-08374-4
Prebound-Sewn - 48 pages - 978-0-613-87776-3