And our hands go up a lot.” Prigmore’s digital illustrations are the perfect complement to the tongue-in-cheek text. We have to try hard to stay in our seats. Parents will certainly chuckle along with this one, but kindergarten teachers’ stomach muscles will ache: “ravity works differently here. “I am assigned to my commander, capsule, and crewmates.” Though he’s afraid, he stands tall and is brave (not just once, either-the escape hatch beckons, but NASA’s saying gets him through: “FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION”).
On liftoff day (a space shuttle–themed calendar counts down the days a stopwatch, the minutes), the small family boards their rocket ship (depicted in the illustrations as the family car), and “the boosters fire.” They orbit base camp while looking for a docking place. In an imaginative ruse that’s maintained through the whole book, a young astronaut prepares for his mission to Planet Kindergarten. 3-7)Ī genius way to ease kids into the new adventure that is kindergarten. The jokes continue right up to the final page, where Teague playfully trounces any last remaining boundaries between fantasy and reality. In another spread, fat longhorn cattle stampede directly toward Aunt Fern's, where a green, mowed lawn borders abruptly on scrubby desert. When Wallace's Aunt Fern calls to invite the cowboys to a barbecue, the illustration shows Wallace in a modern phone booth, plunk in the middle of nowhere. The rhyming text derives much of its humor from its interplay with the illustrations.
Captured by cowboys, Wallace acquires a fancy cowpoke costume, learns to rope and ride, and bravely diverts a stampede, matador-style.
Then imagination takes over as a steam engine thunders right out of the wall and readers are transported to the Wild West, depicted larger-than-life in full-bleed oil paintings. In an illustration bounded by neat white borders, Wallace Bleff writes ``How I Spent My Summer Vacation'' on the blackboard at school.
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