Welcome to Kindergarten (Rlb)

Anne F. Rockwell. Walker & Company, $16.85 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8027-8746-0

""Tim, Come meet your kindergarten teacher on Thursday at 3 o'clock."" In Anne Rockwell's Welcome to Kindergarten, Tim visits his new classroom before the start of school. After working in the science center, making ""things out of wet and squishy clay, playing ball outside and having a cookie with a new friend,"" Tim discovers that his new classroom is not too big after all, but ""just the right size for me."" ( Apr.)

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