Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten
By (Author) Joseph Slate
Illustrated by Ashley Wolff
Penguin Random House Australia
Puffin
11th November 2002
Australia
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: School stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
Early years: numbers and counting
Paperback
40
Width 232mm, Height 279mm, Spine 4mm
187g
Miss Bindergarten, the world's best kindergarten teacher, is getting ready for another milestone. Tomorrow she and her class will have been together for 100 days. To celebrate, each student must bring "100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing!" At night, while the students go to work assembling their projects, Miss Bindergarten is working, too, making special surprises for the class. The 100th day of kindergarten is bound to be unforgettable! Children will delight in hearing about this special event, a common cause for celebration in kindergartens today. Illustrated by Ashley Wolff.
Children and adults both will be delighted ("Booklist", starred review) The lively, rhyming text is accompanied by illustrations that reveal details worth poring over. ("The Horn Book")
Joseph Slate, a native West Virginian, has always loved to paint and write. Mr. Slate is professor of art emeritus at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he taught for 30 years. He now lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Patty. A Marine Air Corps veteran, he and his wife have set foot on all seven continents and traveled in 39 countries. They have lived in both Japan and Italy. Ashley Wolff is the author and/or illustrator of over 55 children's picture books includingI Love My Mommy Becauseand I Love My Daddy Because, Stella and Roy Go Camping, Me Baby, You Baby, The Wild Little Horse, Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar, I Call My Grandma Nanaand the belovedMiss Bindergarten Series.Her books have won numerous state and national awards.