The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Parker, Marjorie Blain

Kindergarten Countdown!: 10 More Sleeps Until School Starts!

32 pp. | Sterling | August, 2017 | Trade ISBN 978-1-4549-2060-1 $16.95

(3) PS Illustrated by Sophie Burrows. In a nicely repetitive rhyming text, a child counts down the last ten sleeps until the first day of school and speculates what might happen there: "I'll paint and glue, / draw a picture or two." At book's end, we see the exuberant little-boy narrator doing those very activities in kindergarten. Burrows's watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations are sweet and ably capture that first-day excitement.

Reviewer: Kari Allen