This brightly illustrated picture book gives young readers a look at the first day of school for kindergarteners. The author examines the daily accidents and mishaps, and explores several different backgrounds and personalities as the children get ready for school.

Absolutely loved this story of twenty kids getting ready for their first day of school. Rhyming text and illustrations on a white background make this perfect for younger picture book readers, but older ones can still enjoy it too! The kids are a diverse bunch in terms of gender, ethnicity/race, and personal style ("Five pull on their favorite jeans. Two are fashionista queens. Four wear shirts their mothers chose. One inspects her freckled nose"), and there's a set of fraternal twins as well. The kids have very different feelings about going to school for the first time, allowing readers to find one that matches their own feelings, as well as helping them understand how others might be feeling differently. ( )

This book is about twenty young children who are from nineteen different home. They are getting ready for their first day of kindergarten. As we see each of them getting up for school that morning, some are nervous, eager, and small number were very grumpy. No matter the mood that morning they go dressed, pack their backpacks and eat their healthy breakfast before they leave out of the house for the day. This is their first day meeting their Kindergarten teacher and becoming a class all together. The central message is that we all come from different home each day but still end up in the same classroom to learn the same materials. ( )

“The Class” is a story about students getting ready in the morning before their first day of Kindergarten. The story takes you through the different characters and how they each get ready in the morning, they all have different routines, different personalities, different attitudes toward school, and how they all look differently. The stories message is about how all students are different and how they all come from different backgrounds but they all come together in front of the teacher in their classroom at school. This story allows students to connect to at least one character in the story in some way due to all the differences in the multiple characters that are displayed. ( )