The children in Mrs. Williams's class find it hard to concentrate on a blustery day.
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The students in Miss Williams's first-grade class have active imaginations, as do most 6-year-olds. They try their best to concentrate on their lessons, but their daydreams keep drawing them away. In this short but sweet story, the cats, rats, hogs, hippos, and other animals that populate this classroom travel far and wide over the course of one day. Miss Williams, a pastel-clad pooch, understands her kids' plight and says with a sigh, "This seems to be a blustery day for daydreams." The watercolor paintings are full of action--superhero bears flying through space, dinosaurs devouring their prey, and a dog and fox struggling to get their audio-visual equipment through a blinding sandstorm on a faraway desert. The story is somewhat slim, but it's clear that Miss Williams loves her job, her students, and the challenge of teaching them how to channel their creative energy.
From Publishers Weekly
Few can match Cazet ( A Fish in His Pocket ; Frosted Glass )--a master of school-age slice-of-life in picture book format. Featuring perhaps the most sweetly anthropomorphized and consistently childlike animals ever to populate an elementary school, Cazet's books always manage to convey the emotional dimensions that anchor the reality of a child's life. In softly toned watercolors, Cazet documents a class of first graders and their teacher on "a blustery day for daydreams." Miss Williams's class just can't seem to keep their minds on the tasks at hand. Neither homework nor dinosaurs nor recess can contain their wide-ranging imaginations. An understanding and loving teacher, Miss Williams observes that "wishes and dreams travel with daydreams." By the day's--and the book's--end, teacher and students alike have indulged their rich fantasy lives. Ages 4-7.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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