Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten - Softcover

Slate, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142301272 ISBN 13: 9780142301272

Publisher: Puffin Books, 2004

Synopsis

A playful take on a topic that all parents can relate to-getting sick!  The ever-lovable Miss Bindergarten is not feeling well.  The flu strikes on Sunday, so she has to stay home from kindergarten on Monday.  Mr. Tusky (who is a wee bit rusty) will be her substitute, but it just won't be the same.  The kindergartners miss Miss Bindergarten!  They pass the time by making get-well cards and singing songs, all the while counting out the days that Miss Bindergarten is away.  What ever will they do without her?

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Review:

On Sunday morning, sad but true,
Miss Bindergarten got the flu.
"I'm aching and shaking right down to the bone.
Tomorrow I fear I shall have to stay home."
Sure enough, Monday morning comes, and Miss Bindergarten's class is upset to see that their beloved teacher is nowhere to be found. Soon Mr. Tusky arrives to fill in for Miss Bindergarten, with an endearing appeal to his temporary students: "I hope you'll help me through the day--I'm just a wee bit rusty." Adam the alligator, Brenda the beaver, Christopher the cat, and all the alphabetized others rise gallantly to the occasion, showing Mr. Tusky the ropes of kindergarten life: show and tell, song singing, and picture painting. But one by one, day by day, classmates drop like flu-ridden flies.

The many delights of kindergarten--even a sick day, if it includes ginger ale and bendy straws--are captured perfectly in this third in the popular Miss Bindergarten series. As in their two previous books about the canine schoolteacher and her multicultural (hippos, monkeys, lizards, pigs, etc.) classroom (Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten and Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten), Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff use gentle little verses and a simple story line to introduce young readers to the happy world of kindergarten. (Ages 4 to 7) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

Joseph Slate, a native West Virginian, has always loved to paint and write. Mr. Slate is professor of art emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he taught for 30 years. He now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Patty. A Marine Air Corps veteran, he and his wife have set foot on all seven continents and traveled in 39 countries. They have lived in both Japan and Italy.

Ashley Wolff  is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 children’s picture books including I Love My Mommy Because and I Love My Daddy Because, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, The Wild Little Horse, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, I Call My Grandma Nana and the beloved  Miss Bindergarten Series. Her books have won numerous state and national awards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0142301272
• ISBN 13: 9780142301272
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Wolff Ashley