It is Children's Book Week - Check Out, The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten

I am happy today to share another book with you from Kids Can Press, The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten, written by Maureen Fergus and illustrated by Mike Lowery. As I wrote yesterday, any day is a great day to enjoy a new book with a child you love, but even more so during Children's Book Week - and this is a book you will all enjoy . . . 

Favorite Features -

• Fun illustrations children will enjoy.
• This "turn-around" story will help children as they go to school - this is a particularly great book to get a child who will be starting Kindergarten next Fall.

Kids Can Press says, "'I liked kindergarten from the very 1st day,' begins the narrator of this very funny and touching picture book. However, she notices, 'My mom was happy for me, of course, but I got the feeling she was also a little sad' to leave her. So one day the little girl invites her mom to join the kindergarten class for the day, which turns out to be a real learning experience --- for both of them. Somehow her mom just can’t get any of the rules right: she barges to the front of the line, she shouts out without raising her hand, she slams down her scissors during Craft Time. How embarrassing! In a wonderful role reversal which will delight young children, the girl must become the patient, and sometimes frustrated, expert who instructs her mom on how to behave.

Author Maureen Fergus has found a unique way of telling a school story which allows children to feel rewarded about how much they know. The spare style and juvenile sensibility of the artwork by Mike Lowery perfectly conveys the hilarity of the story. This book would be a popular, entertaining read-aloud, especially for kindergartners themselves. It ties in beautifully to character education lessons on patience or perseverance. The little girl is a wonderful role model for how to be generous and kind to others who are struggling with something new, while also providing a humorous lesson on why it’s important to follow the rules."

If a child you love will be starting something new, The Day My Mom Came to Kindergarten is a fun way to provide opportunities to talk about these new things together - whether their "new thing" is going to Kindergarten, or something else.