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40 pp.
| Simon/Beach Lane
| July, 2016
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TradeISBN 978-1-4424-2248-3$17.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-4424-4677-9
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Illustrated by
Kimberly Gee.
"Four are eager, up since dawn. / Three just sit and yawn and yawn." Spare, trip-proof rhymes describe the morning routine before the first day of school as experienced by a bevy of what appear to be new kindergartners. Together, Ashburn's rhymes and Gee's tidy thumbnails of twenty-odd individualized kids make the point that it's okay to march to one's own beat.