Arthur's sister D.W. offers friendly, no-nonsense advice to help preschoolers get through their first day of school in this "New York Times" bestseller, now in paperback. Full color.
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PreSchool-Arthur's talkative, spirited, and sometimes bossy little sister invites young listeners to join her for a day at her preschool. With smiles and assurances, she gives instructions about saying good-bye to parents and hello to the other students and even to the class pet. Her chatty tone is comforting and reassuring, as she talks about snack time, bathroom breaks, boo-boos, free play, and circle time. The story ends with the children being picked up, reassuring youngsters that their parents will come back for them. Brown's signature pen-and-ink watercolors perfectly capture the characters' activities and emotions. Preschoolers will love D.W.'s matter-of-fact advice and will want to listen to this story again and again. A great book for sharing at home or during storytime to calm first-day jitters.
Tracy Bell, Durham Public Schools, NC
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Tracy Bell, Durham Public Schools, NC
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"A great book for sharing at home or during storytime to calm first day jitters." School Library Journal ** "The ins and outs of school through the eyes of everyone's favorite four-year-old ardvark." People
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Marc Brown is the creator of the bestselling Arthur Adventure book series and co-developer of the children's PBS television series, Arthur. He has also created a second book series, featuring D.W., Arthur's little sister, as well as numerous other books for children. Marc Brown lives with his family in Tisbury, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Does the job, but could use improvement,
By Issaquah Mom (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D.W.'s Guide to Preschool (Arthur Adventures) (Paperback)
We bought this for my 2.5 year old daughter as she went into part time preschool.
Pros: - She loved it. - Covers many topics of preschools and fears that kids may have - Character is likeable by kids. - It did help in the preschool adjustment. Cons: - There are 4 pages where there are kids crying within the illustrated pages. My daughter asked "why is he/she crying?" a LOT when we got this book. One is when they are being dropped off, which is OK in my opinion, because it can address this fear. BUT, the other ones are needless (example: author chose to illustrate the lyric "babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah" for music time, seems like a bad choice; show a boy crying who got a boo-boo, shows a girl crying when she spills her juice) - I think some of the "jokes" in the book are more for the parents than the kids, I usually omit them when I am reading. My daugther has not seemed to understand them. Overall, it is a good book because my daughter liked it. BUT, out of many books we have, I think it must have been written by a non-parent of a toddler because it just has a lot of content that is not necessarily BAD, but just not well thought out in terms of how a toddler would understand it. Kind of hard to explain, but you'll know EXACTLY what I mean when you get it! By the way, a great one for this age group is also Maisy goes to preschool.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best preschool books,
By Kai's mom (Holywood, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: D.W.'s Guide to Preschool (Arthur Adventures) (Hardcover)
funny, light hearted, useful. I bought about 5 different ones to help prepare my 2 year old for preschool, and this was one of the best. This is one of the few times DW is a great role model; she takes preschool all in stride and has a good time.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
LOVE IT!,
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This review is from: D.W.'s Guide to Preschool (Arthur Adventures) (Hardcover)
My three year old son is getting ready for preschool and I was so excited to find this book. He loves the illustrations and asks a lot of questions about what is going on in the pictures. We bought this book on Saturday and within 2 days we have to have read it at leat 50 times-seriously! I want to see if he responds like this to more of Marc Brown's books!
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Welcome to my preschool! I'm D.W. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Welcome to my preschool! I'm D.W. Read the first page New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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