The Night Before Second Grade

by Natasha Wing, Amy Wummer (Illustrator)

Overview

Grab your backpack and get ready for the second grade in the latest big moment to be celebrated in Natasha Wing's best-selling series!

It's the night before a young boy's first day of second grade, and he's excited. He's spent all summer reading and preparing for the year ahead, and he can't wait to learn more about what fun surprises second grade has to offer. Join him and his friends on their journey through the new school year in this delightful story, told in the style of Clement C. Moore's classic tale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593382745
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	06/28/2022
Series:	Night Before Series
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	153,266
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	550L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

Natasha Wing (www.natashawing.com) lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. Her first book with Grosset, The Night Before Easter, was published in 1999.

Amy Wummer is the illustrator of over fifty children's books. In 1998 and 2007, she received the Highlights for Children Cover of the Year award. Amy has illustrated several books in The Night Before series. She lives in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

07/08/2022

K-Gr 2—"'Twas the night before second grade,/ I was out with my friend./ We couldn't believe summer vacation/ had come to an end." The tow-headed boy who narrates, with a slightly taller tow-headed friend, Jack, anticipates seeing students from first grade, reading longer poems, having a tough teacher, and getting to read chapter books, apparently off-limits until now. He and his family are white, but among those he sees the next day are two children with brown skin, a girl in a hijab, an Asian boy, and Jack; they show off their new shoes because they have all had growth spurts. The surprise of second grade is not the chapter books after all, but that his father is the teacher, who reassures everyone he will not play favorites. With awkward rhymes, bumpy scansion, and no real plot, this book has little to do with second graders. The chapter book subplot fades and Dad's new job is a last-minute Hail Mary to infuse excitement but falls flat. VERDICT Buy another copy of Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger, if the budget allows, but pass on this one.—Kimberly Olson Fakih

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