![]() ![]() ![]() The book concludes with a winning set of class portraits, each of Miss Bindergarten's pupils (except poor Ian) grinning into the ""camera,"" the picture of self-assurance. Miss Bindergarten puts the finishing touches on the room just in time, and the students arrive. Meanwhile, Adam Krupp wakes up, Brenda Heath brushes her teeth, and Christopher Beaker finds his sneaker. ![]() Slate's text has a comforting, familiar rhythm (""Brenda Heath brushes her teeth/ Christopher Beaker finds his sneaker""), while Wolff's richly colored, busy illustrations display a keen and sympathetic eye for children's dress and behavior. Its the first day of kindergarten and Miss Bindergarten is hard at work getting the classroom ready for her twenty-six new students. ![]() Except for a genuinely reluctant iguana named Ian, who is dragged crying from the door of his house by his mother, the kindergarteners appear not only self-reliant but eager. Wolff and Slate (previously teamed in Who Is Coming to Our House?) boost the confidence of their audience by showing that Miss Bindergarten, a gentle-looking black-and-white dog in a green dress, is slightly more harried in her preparations than her students. Any child made anxious by the first day of kindergarten should find great comfort in this book's two parallel stories: 26 young animals-from an alligator named Adam to a zebra named Zach-get ready for their first day of school, while a teacher named Miss Bindergarten is hard at work preparing herself and her classroom for their arrival. ![]()
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