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Brenner, Emily

On the First Day of Grade School

32 pp. | HarperCollins | July, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-06-028013-1 $$15.99 | Library ISBN 0-06-051041-2 $$16.89
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Bruce Whatley. In this reworking of the Christmas carol, children bring animals, not apples, for their teacher, who sings of "Three fat rats, / Two buzzing bees / And a python that didn't squeeze me." It's pleasant enough to watch the menagerie grow in Whatley's colorful, occasionally stilted illustrations, but one might wonder how the rats survive for all those days with a python slithering about.
Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann

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