Happy first one hundred days of school!
Gratitude
I am grateful for help with this book. Thanks to my editor, Anne Schwartz, for all her hard work with this very tricky structure; and to my agent, Elizabeth Kaplan; and to the greatly skilled people at Random House who have supported my books for more than thirteen years. Sarah Mlynowski critiqued a draft. Bob was always there for me. Kate Messner and Anne Ursu helped with contacts. Stella Bourne, Ivy Aukin, and Hazel Aukin gave me many helpful suggestions, and Hazel shared her best booger jokes. Freshly graduated from first grade, Elise Bogaty shared her knowledge. Daniel Aukin was awesome.
Rosemary Wells’s funny and sensitive long-form picture book Emily’s First 100 Days of School was an inspiration for this project.
In my late teens and twenties, I worked as an assistant in a number of preschools. I also spent a year assistant-teaching in an ages-six-to-nine classroom at a Montessori school. Still, I needed significant input from experienced educators to shape the activities at the Graham School. Second-grade teacher Chris Black and first-grade teacher Rebecca Austern offered many social-, emotional-, and curriculum-related insights. Melissa Kantor and Heather Weston connected me to them. Linda Coombs lent her expertise. I’m also indebted to the websites of teachers and reading specialists who share their ideas and practices, including but not limited to Miss Giraffe’s Class, The Brown Bag Teacher, Mrs. Brown Art, Literacy and Lattes, What I Learned Teaching, and Mrs. Beattie’s Classroom.
EMILY JENKINS is the New York Times bestselling author of many books for children, including the chapter books Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home. She cowrites the Upside-Down Magic series, and her picture books include Lemonade in Winter; All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah; A Greyhound, a Groundhog; and Water in the Park. Toys Meet Snow was a finalist for the E. B. White Read Aloud Award, and her books for young children have won the Delaware Diamonds Award, the North Dakota Flicker Tale Award, the Zena Sutherland Award, the Sydney Taylor Award, the Kids’ Wings Award, the Anne Izard Award, two Boston Globe–Horn Book Honors, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor.
emilyjenkins.com
PETE OSWALD is the number-one New York Times bestselling illustrator of The Good Egg and The Bad Seed, which was an Amazon Best Children’s Book of the Year and an indie favorite. He is also the illustrator of The Sad Little Fact. He has worked as a character designer, a concept artist, and an art director on many popular films, including Madagascar 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Angry Birds Movie. This is his first chapter book.
peteoswald.com
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