Tracey C. over at Picture This left me this comment last week:

Just a quick thanks for listing the Marc Brown preschool book. I picked it up last night and love it. I plan to use it here in the next few weeks to help get my daughter even more excited (and less nervous) about starting preschool. She loves DW so that makes it even better!

The book she mentioned, D.W.’s Guide to Preschool, has been sitting in my sidebar for a couple of months. With only two weeks to go, Lucie and I have started reading it. (I also recommend D.W.’s Guide to Perfect Manners with a lovely little manners quiz in the back of the book). As we read, Lucie adds her own commentary about preschool, including the exploits of her two imaginary sisters, Maddie and Sadie.

Samantha Critchell of the Associated Press (featured in the Denver Post) offers up these books to help alleviate first day jitters:

• Miss Smith Reads Again! – for ages 3 and up by Michael Garland
• Vera’s New School – for ages 4-8 by Vera Rosenberry. You may want to also check out her book, Vera’s First Day of School.
• Totally Wonderful Miss Plumberry – for ages 4-7 by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Chinlun Lee
• A Place Called Kindergarten – for ages 4-8 by Jessica Harper and illustrated by G. Brian Karas
• On the Way to Kindergarten – for ages 4 and up by Virginia Kroll and illustrated by Elisabeth Schlossberg
• Miss Mingo and the First Day of School – for ages 4-7 by Jamie Harper
• What Is Science? – for ages 4-8 by Rebecca Kai Dotlich and illustrated by Sachiko Yoshikawa
• Mr. Ouchy’s First Day – for ages 5 and up by B.G. Hennessy and illustrated by Paul Meisel
• Teacher’s Pets – for ages 5 and up by Dayle Ann Dodd and illustrated by Marilyn Hafner
• Miss Malarkey Leaves No Reader Behind (Miss Malarkey) – for ages 5-8 by Judy Finchler and Kevin O’Malley
• Star of the Week – for ages 5-8 by Barney Saltzberg
• What a Day It Was at School!- for ages 5 and up by Jack Prelutsky and Doug Cushman
• The Magic School Bus and The Science Fair Expedition – for ages 7-10 by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
• Dear Mr. Rosenwald – for ages 7-10 by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. This is based on the true story of the schools built in black communities in the 1920s and ’30s using donations Sears, Robebuck president Julius Rosenwald.
• Spot 7 School (Spot7)for all ages by Kidslabel, a Japanese publisher

So now that you ready for school, what kind of lunches are you going to pack? See my post tomorrow!

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