Kathryn Heling

Invites readers to guess different professions based on the uniform and equipment required for each.

Using the image of uniforms and equipment hanging on a clothesline, the text invites children to identify the sport played by each child.

Drying clothes suggest different people the reader will meet on the first day of school.

By dropping the first letter of a variety of words, Mouse makes several new rhyming words.

Rosa will try anything to get freckles like Abby's, then realizes she might have something that is just as desirable.

In this series you will find what hilarious lengths friends use to be like the other. Sometimes the things that make you an individual are the things that you'd like to change while others envy. The "I Wish" books provide the backdrop that lets both serious and not-so serious discusions flow naturally. Imagine that! See other books in the series: I Wish I Was Strong Like Manuel / Quisiera ser fuerte como Manuel, I Wish I Had Freckles Like Abby / Quisiera...

In this story told in a rhyming beat, kindergarteners fondly remember their school year, excitedly attend graduation, and eagerly look forward to first grade.