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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Miss Bindergarten Books) Hardcover – September 1, 1996

by Joseph Slate (Author), Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)

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It's the first day of kindergarten and Miss Bindergarten is hard at work getting the classroom ready for her twenty-six new students. Meanwhile, Adam Krupp wakes up, Brenda Heath brushes her teeth, and Christopher Beaker finds his sneaker. Miss Bindergarten puts the finishing touches on the room just in time, and the students arrive. Now the fun can begin! This rhyming, brightly illustrated book is the perfect way to practice the alphabet and to introduce young children to kindergarten.

"Multifaceted and appealing, this book can be enjoyed in many ways, at home and at school."
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Age Range: 4 - 8 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3
Lexile Measure: AD590L (What's this?)

Series: Miss Bindergarten Books
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers; 1st edition (September 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0525454462
ISBN-13: 978-0525454465
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 0.5 x 11.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #35 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Friendship, Social Skills & School Life > First Day of School
- #291 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Family Life > New Experiences
- #825 in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Friendship, Social Skills & School Life > School

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A book for every child starting school

By slomamma on July 18, 2001

Format: Paperback

Looking at this book from the point of view of an adult, I didn't get it. The illustrations are decent, but nothing spectacular. The rhymes are not particularly inventive. And not much happens in the book, which simply shows a teacher getting her classroom ready for the first day of kindergarten, while students are getting ready in their own way - eating breakfast, saying good-bye (or clinging to mom), getting on the bus, and so forth. It's also an alphabet book. Each child in the class has a name that begins with a different letter of the alphabet. But there are hundreds of alphabet books on the market, I thought, and many of them are more clever or better illustrated than this one.
Boy, was I wrong. I got this book out of the library the summer before my daughter started kindergarten. She was a little nervous about starting. She's the type of kid who wants to stand back and observe every situation before she plunges in. That made her the perfect kid for this book. While we had it out of the library, she asked me to read it several times every day. I ended up buying a copy of the book before returning the library copy, because it would have broken her heart to be without it.
My daughter just finished kindergarten, and I have read this book literally hundreds of times. She still loves it, and I think I've finally figured out why it's so appealing. At the beginning of the book, you see a dark, empty, slightly scary looking classroom. For a child who's afraid of starting school, I think that's a pretty good image of her expectation. But a nice teacher comes in and adds blocks, play kitchen toys, mobiles, paint and brushes, posters, crayons and pencils, etc. and turns the classroom into a beautiful, inviting place. Little by little a child learns to see the classroom as a good place to be.Read more ›

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That'll do, Miss Bindergarten. That'll do.

By E. R. Bird HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on February 12, 2005

Format: Paperback

At first you read the premise of this, the first Miss Bindergarten picture book, and you find it a bit too much. Not only is this an alphabet book, not ONLY is this a getting-ready-for-school book, but this is also a learn your animals book. Not since Graham Base's, "Water Hole" has an author tried to do so much in a single item intended (after all) for the early reader set. And yet, remarkably, "Miss Bindergarten" is all these things and more. A rollicking raucous encapsulation of ALL the things a kindergarten teacher must do before a single one of her students has entered the room, the book's a pip. I mean, it's impossible to dislike this story. It's a fun read, a collection of truly charming illustrations, and a great way to introduce kids to the concept of school itself. For the child just beginning to learn away from home, this is an ideal gift or present.

Our opening pages show a lovely border collie being woken at 6:00 in the morning by her peppy little cuckoo clock. With her pet cockatoo in tow we watch as Miss Bindergarten (for so she is) goes about her morning by washing her face, finding a lot pair of shoes and eating a bagel with the morning paper. Then she's off with a full trunk and a yawning cockatoo. In the meantime, various students in alphabetical order are getting ready for kindergarten in their own ways. "Adam Krupp wakes up. Brenda Heath brushes her teeth". Every once in a while we cut back to Miss Bindergarten who's tidying up a long abandoned schoolroom, frantically separating tinker toys, hanging mobiles, etc. As she does so it's difficult not to notice the post-it note stuck to her rear, and a forgotten price tag hanging from her blouse's collar. Time passes, more students come near, and in the end Miss Bindergarten's room is complete.Read more ›

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By Kristy Britton on April 18, 2000

Format: Hardcover

Miss Bindergarten, a dog wakes up and gets ready for her first day back to school. She packs her car and prepares to fix her gloomy classroom. Her pupils are getting ready for their first day of kindergarten. Each student (animals) has a rhyme to go with their activity: "Beaver Heath brushes her teeth" and "Ian Lowe says, `I won't go' ''. Some are excited and some, such as Ian, are upset. Meanwhile, Miss Bindergarten has transformed her room into a bright rainbow of colors. Ashley Wolff does a wonderful job of illustrating this book. The illustrations are done in watercolor-and-gouache. Depicting the animals realistically, she captures excitement, dispear, and love in their facial expressions. Each animal looks incredibly life like, even though they are portrayed with some human characteristics. I think that it is important for children's books to illustrate animals realistically. If children look at books that show purple elephants and blue horses they will believe can be any color. This way the children will be better able to identify the animal when they see it again. The colors used in this book are very vibrant. Every page contains busy animals and curved text, they fill every available space.

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Not my kid's kindergarten

By K. Wood on August 29, 2011

Format: Paperback Verified Purchase

I think this book is charming, and my younger child loves the animal illustrations. But my kindergartener isn't interested in it, and now that he has actually started kindergarten, I can guess one possible reason why: the classroom shown in the book bears ZERO resemblance to his kindergarten room. Where we live, kindergarten in the public schools isn't about toys and art and dramatic play. It's about desks and workbooks. So the classroom in the book shows my son everything he misses from pre-K. In his shoes, I think I would hate this book for that reason. And as a parent, this book makes me all the more unhappy about his real kindergarten. This is not the book's fault, of course, but it's a small lesson in unintended consequences for me as a parent.

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Five Stars

Good value

Published 12 days ago by Ed Pinheiro

Five Stars

Grandson loved this book being read to him a few days before he began kindergarten.

Published 2 months ago by S. Hamilton

Five Stars

Cute story. We read it the night before school and many times since

Published 3 months ago by Kathryn

Five Stars

Great book for new Kindergarten kiddos!

Published 3 months ago by Flanny

Better for preschool

A little young for kindergarten. Better for preschool

Published 3 months ago by John Schlesinger

Five Stars

My granddaughter loved this book!

Published 4 months ago by Bindi

Not Very Memorable

Not very memorable. Just an okay rhyming book that deals with getting ready for school.

Published 5 months ago by John W Dodson

Such a fun book! It shows Miss Bindergarten starting with her ...

Such a fun book! It shows Miss Bindergarten starting with her class all in disarray and how she is preparing for the first day. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Kerri L. Fronczak

Great book for the little ones!

This is a great book that my Kindergartener absolutely loves. He is reading it in school and so I purchased this copy for home use. Read more

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Love this book as a family tradition

Love this book as a family tradition. We would read it to our kids each year before the first day of school and as they got older...funny they even looked forward to it. Read more

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