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Join Tim as he visits his future kindergarten classroom and learns what he will be doing during his first year of school. Explore the reading, math, and art centers. Sit at the desk where he will practice writing, counting, and telling time. The classroom may look a little too big at first, but after finding out about all the fun ahead, it doesn't seem too big at all. In fact, it's just the right size.
Author Notes
Anne Rockwell was born in Memphis, Tennessee on February 8, 1934. She moved to New York City at the age of 18 and found a job doing typing work for a textbook publisher. She studied at Pratt Graphic Arts Center and at the Sculpture Center.
She became an author and illustrator. Her first children's book, Paul and Arthur Search for the Egg, was published in 1964. Her other books included Boats, Fire Engines, Things That Go, Our Earth, and Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth. She collaborated on several books with her husband Harlow Rockwell including Sally's Caterpillar and The Toolbox. After her husband's death, she collaborated with her daughter Lizzy Rockwell. Their books included Career Day and Zoo Day. She died of natural causes on April 10, 2018 at the age of 85.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-A veteran author of books for the very young, Rockwell has produced a quiet, reassuring look at kindergarten routines. A little boy and his mother attend an open house, and he discovers all of the fascinating classroom centers and the activities that he will be doing in each one when September arrives. After finding a new friend and sharing cookies, he goes home contentedly with his mother, thinking that the school building doesn't look too big at all anymore, but seems "-just the right size for me!" The story is enhanced by simple, bright, and uncluttered illustrations that look like a young child's artwork-a perfect fit for the text. Although there are many titles about starting kindergarten, this one is just right to share one-on-one with an apprehensive four- or five-year-old.-Judith Constantinides, formerly at East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
"Tim, Come meet your kindergarten teacher on Thursday at 3 o'clock." In Anne Rockwell's Welcome to Kindergarten, Tim visits his new classroom before the start of school. After working in the science center, making "things out of wet and squishy clay, playing ball outside and having a cookie with a new friend," Tim discovers that his new classroom is not too big after all, but "just the right size for me." ( Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Horn Book Review
A boy's first-day-of-school fears are assuaged when he and his mother tour his new kindergarten classroom and find that it is not so big and scary after all. Although it accomplishes its goal of calming new school jitters, the matter-of-fact account lacks drama and originality. The paintings are simple and clear. From HORN BOOK Fall 2001, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Ages 4-5. Not every child is eager to start school, but this record of a little boy's preview school visit, from a veteran author-illustrator, will go a long way toward dispelling such hesitancy. The classroom-to-be seems dauntingly large to the prospective kindergartner, but after visualizing what he's going to be learning and doing at the science, art, reading, math, and reading "centers"; getting a cookie from the teacher; and meeting a future classmate, the child concludes that his room is going to be just the right size. Rockwell depicts the visit in broad brush strokes and bright colors, surrounding the anxious young narrator with smiling adults and showing him happily active at each stop on the tour. The matter-of-fact tone of the first-person text adds another layer of reassurance to this purposeful picture prelude. --John Peters