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Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?

By Audrey Vernick

Illustrated in full color by Daniel Jennewein

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Is Your Buffalo Ready for Kindergarten?
 

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By Audrey Vernick

Audrey Vernick successfully completed kindergarten as a child, where the hardest assignment she ever had in class was to find a word that rhymed with her first name. She is also the author, with her sister Ellen Glassman Gidaro, of the picture book Bark and Tim: A True Story of Friendship as well as the forthcoming She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story and Teach Your Buffalo to Play Drums. Ms. Vernick lives with her family in Ocean, NJ. You can visit her online at www.audreyvernick.com.



Photo Credit: Paul Arnold


 

Illustrated in full color by Daniel Jennewein

Daniel Jennewein is a graduate both of an outdoor hiking kindergarten and of the Art Center College of Design in California. Although he does not have a buffalo, he does have a very bratty Birman cat named Emmy. Daniel lives in Frankfurt, Germany, with his wife, Lenore. This is his first book.



Photo Credit: Frank Blümler


 

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"This story's simple lesson about individuality is cleverly expressed through Vernick's gentle wit and Jennewein's crayon-outlined kindergartners-most of all, the furry and ungainly reader surrogate with whom kids will readily relate."


- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"As an embodiment of school anxiety, this buffalo leads the herd-plus, he's got a hump."


- Kirkus
"Vernick's amusing tale will prove handy as a first-day-of-school book recommendation for children and teachers alike."


- School Library Journal
"The breezy, clap-on-the-shoulder reassurance of the text is both bolstering and funny as it introduces, via buffalo, some key aspects of kindergarten experience."


- Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books