Open Court

Kindergarten

School

AV Kit

Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson has a field day /Book & Cassette.

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin, c1985. The notorious Miss

Swamp reappears at the Horace B. Smedley School, this time

to shape up the football team and make them win at least one

game.

E Ahl

Ahlberg, Janet. --Starting school. New York : Puffin, 1990.

Explains what pre-schoolers do at school including meeting

the teacher, making friends, listening to stories, drawing

pictures, and playing.

E All

Allard, Harry. Miss Nelson is back. Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Co., 1982. When their teacher has to go away for a week,

the kids in room 207 plan to "really act up.".

E Blo

Bloom, Suzanne, 1950-. The bus for us. 1st ed. Honesdale, PA.

: Boyds Mills Press, c2001. "On her first day of school,

Tess wonders what the school bus will look like.".

E Bro

Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's teacher moves in. Boston : Little,

Brown, c2000. Arthur thinks that having his teacher stay at

his house will be a horrible experience.

E Caz

Cazet, Denys. A fish in his pocket. 1st American ed. New York

: Orchard Books, c1987. All through school Russell the bear

is worried about the little orange fish in his pocket, until

he figures out how to return it to its pond.

E Caz

Cazet, Denys. Never spit on your shoes. 1st Orchard Paperbacks

ed. New York : Orchard Books, 1993, c1990. First grader

Arnie tells his mother about his tiring first day at school,

while the illustrations reveal the mayhem he is leaving out

of his account.

E Caz

Cazet, Denys. Frosted glass. New York : Bradbury Press, c1987.

Gregory the dog's vivid imagination gets him in trouble at

school, leading him to draw cities and spaceships when he

should be doing something else, but his artistic ability

does not go unrecognized.

E Cuy

Cuyler, Margery. 100th day worries. 1st ed. New York : Simon &

Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2000. Jessica worries

about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th

day of school.

E Fal

Falconer, Ian, 1959-. Olivia saves the circus. New York :

Atheneum Books For Young Readers, c2001. At school, Olivia

tells about how, when she went to the circus and all the

performers were out sick, she saved the day, becoming Olivia

the Tattooed Lady, Olivia the Lion Tamer, and more.

E Gan

Gantos, Jack. Rotten Ralph's show and tell. Boston : Houghton

Mifflin, 1989. Sarah takes her rotten cat Ralph to school

for Show and Tell and he behaves terribly, as usual, by

spoiling everyone's show.

E Gif

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Today was a terrible day. New York :

Penguin Books, 1984, c1980. Follows the humorous mishaps of

a second grader who is learning to read.

E Hen

Henkes, Kevin. Chrysanthemum. New York : Greenwillow Books,

c1991. Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going

to school and the other children make fun of it.

E Her

Herman, Gail, 1959-. Lucky goes to school! New York : Grosset &

Dunlap, c2001. Lucky, a dog, walks to school with his boy

and plays with the other dogs until the school day ends.

E How

Howe, James, 1946-. The day the teacher went bananas. 1st ed.

New York : Dutton, c1984. A class's new teacher, who leads

the children in a number of very popular activities, turns

out to be a gorilla.

E Lin

Lindbergh, Reeve. The awful aardvarks go to school. New York :

Viking, c1997. An alphabetical listing of the acts of

destruction committed by mischievous aardvarks on their

animal classmates during a visit to school.

E Mar

Marshall, Edward. Fox at school. New York, N.Y. : Dial Press,

c1983. Fox on stage -- Fox escapes -- Fox in charge.

E Nob

Noble, Trinka Hakes. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash. New York

: Dial Press, c1980. Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc

on the class trip to a farm.

E Num

Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If you take a mouse to school. 1st ed.

New York : Laura Geringer Books, c2002. Follows a boy and

his mouse through a busy day at school.

E Pen

Penn, Audrey, 1947-. The Kissing Hand. Washington, D.C. : Child

Welfare League of America, c1993. When Chester the raccoon

is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his

mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.

E Rat

Rathmann, Peggy. Ruby the copycat. New York : Scholastic,

c1991. Ruby insists on copying Angela, until her teacher

helps her discover her own creative resources.

E Roc

Rockwell, Anne F. Career day. 1st ed. [New York] :

HarperCollins, c2000. Each child in Mrs. Madoff's class

brings a visitor who tells the group about his or her job.

E Sch

Schwartz, Amy. Bea and Mr. Jones : story and pictures.

Scarsdale, N.Y. : Bradbury Press, c1982. Tired of

kindergarten, Bea Jones trades "jobs" with her father, who

works in an office.

E Sch

Schwartz, Amy. Annabelle Swift, kindergartner. New York :

Orchard, c1988. Although some of the things her older

sister taught her at home seem a little unusual at school,

other lessons help make Annabelle's first day in

kindergarten a success.

E Sla

Slate, Joseph. Miss Bindergarten gets ready for kindergarten.

1st ed. New York : Dutton Children's Books, c1996.

Introduces the letters of the alphabet as Miss Bindergarten

and her students get ready for kindergarten.

E Udr

Udry, Janice May. What Mary Jo shared. Morton Grove, Ill. : A.

Whitman, 1966. Mary Jo is faced with the problem of what to

bring to "show and tell" at school.

E Van

Van Leeuwen, Jean. Amanda Pig, school girl. 1st ed. New York :

Dial Books for Young Readers, c1997. Amanda Pig's first day

of school is every bit as wonderful as she always hoped it

would be.

E Wel

Wells, Rosemary. Timothy goes to school. New York : Dial Press,

c1981. Timothy learns about being accepted and making

friends during the first week of his first year at school.

E Wel

Wells, Rosemary,. Yoko. 1st ed. New York : Hyperion Books for

Children, c1998. When Yoko brings sushi to school for

lunch, her classmates make fun of what she eats--until one

of them tries it for himself.

E Zie

Ziefert, Harriet. Harry gets ready for school. New York :

Puffin Books, 1993, c1991. In preparation for his first day

of school, Harry visits the doctor, dentist, and barber,

prepares pencils and a new outfit, and gets a good night's

rest.

PB e

Maccarone, Grace. The lunch box surprise. New York : Scholastic

Inc., c1995. When Sam's mother forgets to pack his lunch,

his friends in the first grade come to his rescue.

PB e

Bourgeois, Paulette. Franklin goes to school. New York :

Scholastic, c1995. Franklin is nervous about his first day

of school, but once he is there he has too much fun to be

nervous.

PB e

Brown, Marc Tolon. Arthur's teacher trouble. Boston : Little,

Brown, c1986. Third-grader Arthur is amazed when he is

chosen to be in the school spellathon.

PB e

Hest, Amy. Off to school, Baby Duck! 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass.

: Candlewick Press, 1999. Baby Duck experiences the fear of

the first day of school, but with a little help from Grampa,

everything turns out okay in the end.

PB e

Mayer, Mercer, 1943-. Little Critter's this is my school.

Racine, Wis. : Western, c1990. Little Critter's first day

of school.

PB e

Henkes, Kevin. Wemberly worried. 1st ed. New York :

Greenwillow Books, c2000. A mouse named Wemberly, who

worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of

things to worry about when she faces the first day of

nursery school.

PB e

London, Jonathan, 1947-. Froggy goes to school. New York :

Viking, 1996. Froggy is nervous about his first day of

school, but, even though it's hard to sit still, he has a

wonderful time.