When Mommy and Daddy Go to Work

by Joanna Cole, Maxie Chambliss (Illustrations)

While Mommy and Daddy are busy at work, I'm busy having fun at day care. Day care is fun, even though saying good-bye to Mommy and Daddy before work might not be. In this reassuring guide for young children, noted author Joanna Cole shows that, although parents may go to work, they always come back at the end of the day. A helpful Note to Parents is included. Acclaimed for her Magic School Bus series, Joanna Cole is also the author of the popular I'm a Big Sister, I'm a Big Brother, My Big Boy Potty, and My Big Girl Potty, all illustrated by Maxie Chambliss.

Hardcover

First published August 7, 2001

About the author

Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

This little book has been great in helping Morgan understand the "story" of parent's at work and her at day care, a part of her regular routine. It uses simple language and cartoonish pictures to tell get across the idea of where Mom and Dad go when she's at day care and the all important message that they always come back.

[Christine Turner]

This reassuring guide for young toddlers in day care shows that, although parents may go to work, they always come back at the end of the day. A helpful Note to Parents about handling day care issues is included.

Subject: Day care centers -- Juvenile fiction.
Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction
Day care centers -- Fiction
Parent and child -- Fiction