National Regular Average Ordinary Day
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Even the regular, average, ordinary days can be celebrated with this charming picture book!
Peter does not like being bored, so he comes up with a way to have some festive fun--he'll celebrate a different holiday each day! He even rates them on a scale of 1 to 10. But when he wakes up one morning to discover there isn't any holiday, he realizes he'll have to take matters into his own hands and make up his own! That's easier said than done, though, and nothing seems to go right--until Peter realizes that even a regular, average, ordinary day can be something worth celebrating.
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Playing the same old games with his friend Devin is "super boring!" so Peter decides to have fun a new way, all by himself: rating and enjoying all the less commonly celebrated holidays on the calendar. On National Underwear Day, for example, Peter dons garish boxer shorts on every part of his body, and deems the day worthy of eight stars. But when a morning dawns that has no holiday, and Peter can't invent one that gets any traction (National Ignore Your Sister Day goes over like a lead balloon), he discovers that he "didn't need something special to do every single day"; an average, ordinary day, especially one in which he patches things up with Devin and the whole neighborhood is outside playing, can be a lot of fun. Readers may wish they could enjoy Peter commemorating more of the goofy real-life holidays, but it's always good to see both kid ingenuity and the joys of everyday life celebrated, and Katzenberger (A Triceratops Would Not Make a Good Ninja) and Bakos's (Here Come the Helpers) book should be a fun prompt for calendar-related classroom activities. Ages 3 7.
