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Rabe follows a young girl through her first 12 days of kindergarten in this book based on the familiar Christmas carol.<\/p>\n
The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip. While the days are given ordinal numbers, the song skips the cardinal numbers in the verses, and the rhythm is sometimes off: \u201cOn the second day of kindergarten \/ I thought it was so cool \/ making lots of friends \/ and riding the bus to my school!\u201d The narrator is a white brunette who wears either a tunic or a dress each day, making her pretty easy to differentiate from her classmates, a nice mix in terms of race; two students even sport glasses. The children in the ink, paint, and collage digital spreads show a variety of emotions, but most are happy to be at school, and the surroundings will be familiar to those who have made an orientation visit to their own schools.<\/p>\n
While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis\u2019 The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done. <\/p>\n
(Picture book. 4-7)<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n\n
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Pub Date:<\/b> June 21, 2016<\/p>\n
ISBN:<\/b> 978-0-06-234834-0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Page Count:<\/b> 32<\/p>\n
Publisher:<\/b> Harper\/HarperCollins<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
Review Posted Online:<\/b> May 3, 2016<\/p>\n
Kirkus Reviews Issue:<\/b> June 1, 2016<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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