Caterpillar Kisses: Lessons My Kindergarten Class Taught Me about Life

Looking for an end-of-the-year thank-you gift for your child's kindergarten teacher? This brief book of vignettes could be the answer. Naman draws on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in a Catholic school to create these sketches, with one story for each month of the school year. Most tales are cute and funny: there's the boy who dressed as Jesus for Halloween, blessing everyone in sight and using goldfish crackers to feed the multitudes; or the time when the kindergartners took Naman's admonition to ""put yourself in someone else's shoes"" literally, trading footwear with one another. Other episodes are poignant, like when Naman reflects on what she learned from a little girl whose mother died. If it's true that all we ever need to know we learned in kindergarten, this gift book is a fount of simple but necessary insights.