Roar and Sparkles Go to School
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The first day of school can be scary but Roar and Sparkles the dragons will help kids get over their fears of a new experience.
Roar is worried about his first day at school. He's worried that he'll have to do really hard things, like molt his scales and fly over a volcano. And what if his teacher doesn't like dragons?
Big sister Sparkles reassures Roar That school is fun. And when the first day of school arrives, Roar finds his worries melt away.
He meets new friends, plays dragon games, listens to fun stories, and finds a way to thank his sister for support.
Roar and Sparkles Go to School is a sweet story about the anxieties children may feel about attending school for the first time, as well as a comforting tale about the bond between siblings. Sarah Beth Durst's imaginative and playful script is enhanced by Ben Whitehouse's modern and fresh illustrations to create a book that's sure to squelch first-day-of-school worries for children.
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A small yellow dragon named Roar tries to shake his first-day-of-school jitters in this encouraging story, Durst's (The Girl Who Could Not Dream) first picture book. Luckily, Roar has an older sister, Sparkles, who provides encouragement at every turn the story charts a standard path as Roar's worries turn out to be unfounded and he enjoys himself at school, playing games, making a new friend, and finding a way to thank his sister. In appealing illustrations that have a bright, crayony roughness, Whitehouse (the Rider Woofson series) has fun bringing Durst's world to life, from a school bus that's itself a giant dragon (" held his hand through the loop-de-loops") to Roar's school-day activities ("In gym, they played hide-and-seek-the-princess"). Indeed, the lively details of Roar's daily life might be just enough to let readers temporarily forget about their own back-to-school nervousness. Ages 3 6.
