Lists and Suggestions for Kids

Nervous monsters attending school for the first time learn new things, make friends, and sample Chef Octi's special School Gruel.

A first-grade girl who does not like to read stubbornly resists her school librarian's efforts to convince her to love books until she finds one that might change her mind.

Also available in Hoopla. Rhyming text reveals the surprising ways that teachers behave when their students are not at school.

Also available in Hoopla. When Mr. Bungles the teacher oversleeps, he goes to great lengths, trying every form of transportation he can find to get to school on time.

When his teacher is out sick for a week, Martin MacGregor has a difficult time with the homework assigned by the substitute teacher.

A teacher makes her students laugh when she mixes up words, saying "goats" instead of "coats" and "poodles" when she means "puddles."

When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it's up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and the reader are in for a surprise when she gets to her class.

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Inviting her mother to visit her new class, a little kindergartener discovers that there are some things that kids are better at than parents.

Also available in Overdrive. Miss Malarkey vows to find each of her students a book to love by the end of the school year, but one video-game loving boy proves to be a challenge.

Mr. Creacher, a multi-tentacled substitute teacher, warns his prankish students not to misbehave, recounting rhyming cautionary tales of the weird, spooky, and unexpected.

Also available in Hoopla. Pete the cat wears his school shoes when visiting the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and more while singing his special song.

A gingerbread man searches all over the school for the group of children that made him and then left him behind.

Izzy finds many things to be excited about on the first day of school.

Follows a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school.

A literal-minded first-grader's first day of school is filled with confusing adventures, much to her delight.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.

"It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself"--

Also available in Hoopla. A cumulative counting verse in which a child enumerates items in the kindergarten classroom, from the whole alphabet, A to Z, to twelve eggs for hatching.

Also available in Hoopla. "When Splat the Cat and his class take a school trip to the zoo, all Splat wants is to see the penguins"--

Rhyming text with rebuses follows a group of animals through their first day of school.

Also available in Hoopla. Ming goes to preschool, where she bravely plays all kinds of games with new friends and old, but she is still not quite ready for the big red slide.

Starting with number one for the first day of school, Emily learns the numbers to one hundred in many different ways.

Also available in Hoopla. Explains how young dinosaurs should behave during a typical school day.