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Early Readers Back to School!

Getting ready for the school year? Try a couple of these tales on for size!

East Lansing Public Library

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  • "It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself."
    Book, 2016New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2016. — JP REX
  • Fearless Dinosaur takes on new challenges as he starts preschool, from meeting new friends to pasting glitter and googly eyes, but one task requires assistance from everyone.
    Book, 2014New York : Disney Hyperion Books, 2014 — JP SHEA
  • "The crayons are getting ready to go back to school, and each crayon has a subject they're looking forward to the most. They're also ready to meet new friends...and let loose during their very favorite time of day: art class."
    Book, 2023New York : Philomel, c2023. — JP DAYWALT
  • All Llama Llama wants is for summer to go on forever! He's anxious about his first day back at school but maybe, with some help from his friends and Mama Llama, going back to school will be fun after all.
    Book, 2022New York : Viking, 2022. — JP DEWDNEY
  • The pigeon must go to school, but frets about math, learning the alphabet, heavy backpacks, and what the teacher and other birds will think of him.
    Book, 2019New York : Hyperion Books for Children, [2019] — JP WILLEMS
  • On the first day of school, a girl learns how the giant butterflies in her stomach mean she's learning and growing.
    Book, 20230530G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 20230530
  • Illustrations and rhyming text follow a group of children who learn how to write, spell, make friends, and be kind on the first day back at school.
    Book, 2023New York : Random House Children's Books, [2023] — JE PENFOLD
  • When Dat starts school in a country where he does not speak the language, everything around him sound like gibberish until a new friend helps him make sense of his new world.
    Book, 2022Montclair : Levine Querido, 2022. — JP VO
  • Vanessa is nervous she will not fit in on her first day of school, but she hopes a special outfit will show her new classmates she is someone they should know.
    Book, 2021New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021] — JP BRANTLEY-NEWTON
  • English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to…
    Book, 2021Ann Arbor, MI : Sleeping Bear Press, [2021] — JP ALESSANDRI
  • Though his friend Spikey teases him, Little Dinosaur is eager to be ready for his first day of school.
    Book, 2017New York : Random House, [2017] — JE HERMAN