First Grade, Here I Come!

In my opinion, I did not like this book at all. The thought of it being a book for entering first grade is an extremely good idea, however I was not a fan.
First, I was very disappointed in the illustrations throughout the book. The pictures did not show an accurate depiction of the words being

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described. The book also had very old and uninteresting illustrations. If I was bored, a young child will most likely be the same way. The colors on the pages were very bland and they did not catch my eye. The characters in the book looked a lot alike. They all had different colored hair, but their faces looked a lot like one another.
Another reason why I don’t like this book is the word choice. The words were not appropriate for first graders and they just did not make sense in my opinion. For example, one page said, “We’ll help the teacher decorate and sing a swoopy song. Our paper chains will swag the room. (We’re so big, so they’ll be long.) The word choice just was not appropriate in my opinion.
Throughout the book, the author went through a day of a first grader and expressed all of the fun and interesting things an incoming first grader could look forward to. If the word choice was different as well as the pictures, I think this book would be a hit.

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