Miss Bindergarten Stays Home From Kindergarten (Miss Bindergarten Books)
On Sunday morning, sad but true,Miss Bindergarten got the flu."I'm aching and shaking right down to the bone.Tomorrow I fear I shall have to stay home."Sure enough, Monday morning comes, and Miss Bindergarten's class is upset to see  that their beloved teacher is nowhere to be found. Soon Mr. Tusky arrives to  fill in for Miss Bindergarten, with an endearing appeal to his temporary  students: "I hope you'll help me through the day--I'm just a wee bit rusty."  Adam the alligator, Brenda the beaver, Christopher the cat, and all the  alphabetized others rise gallantly to the occasion, showing Mr. Tusky the ropes  of kindergarten life: show and tell, song singing, and picture painting. But one  by one, day by day, classmates drop like flu-ridden flies.The many delights of kindergarten--even a sick day, if it includes ginger ale  and bendy straws--are captured perfectly in this third in the popular Miss  Bindergarten series. As in their two previous books about the canine  schoolteacher and her multicultural (hippos, monkeys, lizards, pigs, etc.)  classroom (Miss Bindergarten Gets  Ready for KindergartenandMiss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th  Day of Kindergarten), Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff use gentle little  verses and a simple story line to introduce young readers to the happy world of  kindergarten. (Ages 4 to 7)--Emilie Coulter--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.