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    <body><![CDATA[My kindergartner and I really enjoyed reading this book as he got ready for school this year. Love the pictures. The kids love seeing what mischief the bird gets into, and comparing the things in Miss Bindergarten's room to their own classrooms.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute book to teach ABC's and for the first day of school. It also has rhyming in it. Miss Bindergarten has many different students and each part of the day is done by each kid and letter.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book! A great and easy read for a kindergarten class on the first day of school. A fun way to introduce the alphabet and rhyming words. :)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[big hit in our house...both a concept book (alpha) and story about a teacher preparing her room for the start of the school year.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I like it because my children love it everytime I read it :0) and that's what matters to me. MY CUTIES!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book to read at the beginning of the school year, especially in a kindergarten classroom. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a really fun book and it's a rhyming book. I like that it's a rhyming book. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[On the first day of kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten must prepare her classroom for her beloved students. This noble, whimsical teacher greets her dark, summertime-empty classroom with an explosion of color--a bouquet of fall leaves, a goldfish, rolled-up posters, and shoeboxes full of no-doubt-delightful surprises. Meanwhile, her young students get ready, too: &quot;<strong>A</strong>dam Krupp wakes up. <strong>B</strong>renda Heath brushes her teeth. <strong>C</strong>hristopher Beaker finds his sneaker.&quot; Author Joseph Slate matches each animal character with a letter of the alphabet, and readers can flip to the back to discover that Adam is an alligator, Brenda is a beaver, and Christopher is a cat--and so on, through the more obscure animals such as the quokka and the Uakari monkey. Youngsters will relish the scenes of school preparation, adorned by rhyming text: a mother iguana dragging her son Ian Lowe (who cries &quot;I won't go!&quot;) out the front door, and the little vole Vicki Densel biting her pencil. And of course Miss Bindergarten is the kindergarten teacher we either remember fondly or wish we had. The final back-to-school classroom scene explodes with love and pride and the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. For kids who adore this book--and there are thousands--don't miss Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff's second loving tribute to teachers and students,  <em>Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the  100th Day of Kindergarten</em>. (Ages 4 and older) <em>--Karin Snelson</em>]]>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 12 18:00:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 12 18:01:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story for preparing little ones for school]]></body>
    
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