This soon-to-be Kindergartner has only 10 days until the first day of school. A first grader has told her the rules: no stuffed animals, no cats allowed in school, and you have to tie your shoes. By yourself. With no help! What can she do? She can't tie her shoes; all she can do is count backwards from ten. A wonderful story of typical, first day jitters and how she tries to deal with it, with a delightful solution to it all.

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Illustrator Harry Bliss lives with his family in northern Vermont.

The first team effort from the creators of Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth, now in paperback!

It's just ten days before kindergarten, and this little girl has heard all there is to know--from a first grader--about what it's going to be like. You can't bring your cat, you can't bring a stuffed animal, and the number one rule? You can't ask anyone for help. Ever. So what do you do when your shoes come untied--and you're the only one in the class who doesn't know how to tie them up again?

"A great book for easing the worries of a kindergartner."--Boston Herald

"Witty . . . an amiable exploration of new-school anxiety."--Publishers Weekly

ALISON McGHEE is the author of three novels for adults as well as Snap, a teen novel, and the picture book Mrs. Watson Wants Your Teeth. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

HARRY BLISS is an award-winning cartoonist and cover artist for The New Yorker. He has also illustrated a number of picture books, and his first, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech, was a New York Times Book Review bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin. He lives in Vermont.

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Imprint: Sandpiper
Distributor: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publication Date: 07-01-2006
Pages: 32
Measurements: 11.00in X 8.50in