My teacher's not here! / written by Lana Button ; & illustrated by Christine Battuz.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Toronto, Ontario : Kids Can Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781771383561
- 1771383569
- My teacher is not here!
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Community Helpers | Button Lana | Available | 33111008628683 | ||||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Community Helpers | Button Lana | Available | 33111009175353 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
As soon as she arrives at school, Kitty knows there's trouble. "Smiling Miss Seabrooke should be here to meet me. But my teacher is missing and NOT here to greet me." With no Miss Seabrooke, everyone should be sent home, right? But no! Kitty and her classmates line up as usual and walk into the school building. Kitty's worries build as she wonders how she will get through the day without her teacher. What will she do when her Thermos gets stuck or her jacket won't zip? Miss Seabrooke is the only one who can fix these things. Or is she?
Author Lana Button perfectly captures the fears and uncertainties of a kindergartner dealing with her first substitute teacher. She also models a way to cope, as Kitty steps up to help the substitute -- a "ginormously tall" giraffe named Mr. Omar -- and discovers that sometimes change can be good. Button's playful and lively cadenced rhyming text, together with Christine Battuz's friendly illustrations of a full cast of animal characters at school, make this a terrific picture book for story time. It provides an excellent lead-in to prepare a class for their first substitute, or for a discussion about how it feels when life doesn't go as expected. A celebration of self-discovery and personal development, this book also makes a wonderful choice for character education lessons on kindness, empathy and perseverance. Educators will appreciate the heartfelt depiction of a young child's warm feelings for her teachers.
"Although she is shy and quiet, Kitty likes going to school--and this is all due to her loving teacher, Miss Seabrooke. Only Miss Seabrooke knows the right way to open her thermos, do up her jacket and sing songs to the class. And only Miss Seabrooke is always there when Kitty needs a hug. So imagine Kitty's desperation when she arrives at school one morning and Miss Seabrooke is nowhere to be found. Instead, her comfortable routine has been thrown into disarray by a substitute teacher named Mr. Omar, a ginormously tall giraffe who is nothing like what Kitty's used to. Kitty knows that Miss Seabrooke is counting on her to be helpful. She also realizes that Mr. Omar will need assistance with all the classroom routines and rules. So, instead of giving in to her fear and uncertainty, she sets about helping Mr. Omar and the other kids with the daily chores and lessons. They get through their day very happily together, and Kitty realizes that sometimes change is good and maybe even fun!"-- Provided by publisher.