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32 pp.
| Whitman |
April, 2000 |
TradeISBN 0-8075-8012-0$$15.95
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Illustrated by
David Legge.
In this delightful twist on the first-day-of-school story, Tom the panda is frightened of starting kindergarten, so Mother and Father stay with him. After a wonderful time, not only Tom, but Mother and Father as well, all want to go back the next day. The anthropomorphic body language and endearing childlike expressions of the adult pandas in the lively illustrations are convincing.