Kindergarten Kids (Read With Me Paperbacks)

Introduces a multicultural group of kindergarteners who show what it is like to go to kindergarten

Ages 3-5. With lots of informal color pictures, this cheerful photo-essay shows 21 kids in a kindergarten class in Schenectady, New York, on a typical day. Girls and boys play with everything from computers to blocks; they learn the alphabet and how to follow rules; they dress up, say the pledge of allegiance, listen to stories, make music and art together, clean up, and talk about the myriad things that make up their world. Sometimes they even have a bad day. This isn't as handsome as Howe's recently updated When You Go to Kindergarten. The design here is sometimes cluttered and confusing, with several activities pictured on every page. Still, kindergarten is a lot like that, anyway, with all kinds of things happening at once; and this inexpensive paperback will help prepare preschoolers for all the opportunities that are opening up for them. Hazel Rochman