Boylston - Entering Kindergarten

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text introduce a school where diversity is celebrated and songs, stories, and talents are shared.

Friends Elephant and Piggie are playing outside when it starts to rain, and then they must decide what to do.

Boomer the golden retriever accompanies his owner to school for show-and-tell.

"As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness!"--Inside book jacket.

Gerald the elephant is certain that he cannot dance but his friend Piggie convinces him to try.

Piggie ruins a perfectly good day by telling Gerald the elephant that she is going, sending him into a panic.

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Piggie can't wait to show Gerald her brand-new toy. But will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break a friendship?

"Piggie really likes slop. She likes it so much, she wants Gerald to try some! But can Gerald find the courage to do it? Or will the smell alone be too much to handle?"-- Provided by publisher.

Gerald is tired and cranky and wants to take a nap, but Piggie is not helping.

Elephant Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive, but as Gerald thinks of one thing after another that they will have to take along, they come to realize that they lack the most important thing of all.