A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.

A nervous Splat finds his first day at Cat School much better than he expected.

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.

A mouse named Wemberly, who worries about everything, finds that she has a whole list of things to worry about when she faces the first day of nursery school.

"It's the first day of school at Frederick Douglass Elementary and everyone's just a little bit nervous, especially the school itself."--

When the class pet bites the finger of Penelope, a tyrannosaurus rex, she finally understands why she should not eat her classmates, no matter how tasty they are.

Ten days before the start of kindergarten, a preschooler can not tie her shoes by herself and fears the worst.

When Ally roars off to her first day at school, she hopes she'll meet lots of other dinosaur-mad kids in class. Instead, she's the only one chomping her food with fierce dino teeth and drawing dinosaurs on her nameplate. Even worse, a group of would-be "princesses" snubs her! Will Ally ever make new friends? With its humorous art, appealing heroine, and surprise ending, this fun picture book celebrates children's boundless imagination --

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.

A little boy decides to skip his very first day of school, because on the first day one doesn't know anything, but on the second, one knows everything.