"Here is the greatest starting school story. It sweetly and earnestly touches on all the familiar first-day worries (the lunchroom, making friends, tripping and falling...) and then, in a perfect twist of an ending, it absolves them. Do you know a teacher? Gift them this book! (Kids love it too.)"
Publisher Albert Whitman & Company
Publication Date 2011-07-01
Section Children's Picture Books / All Staff Suggestions / Suggestions for Kids / Archived Staff Suggestions / Liz S.
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9780807505106
It's time to go back to school. But Tortoise is worried. What if he falls down? What if he doesn't like lunch? What if the kids are mean to him? What if he falls down, doesn't like lunch, and the kids are mean to him? The perfect back-to-school book about being brave, with a surprise at the end!