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It’s Your First Day of School, Busy Bus!
by Jody Jensen Shaffer (Author) and Claire Messer (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Today is the very first day of school! Busy Bus is excited, but he also has some first-day jitters. Will the children like him? Will he be homesick? What if he gets lost?! Luckily, bus driver Ben knows just what to do to make sure that the school year gets off to a great start. The bus driver’s work to get the bus ready (checking the tires, air, horn, etc.) adds a a STEM focus to this #backtoschool book.

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It’s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)

Click, Clack, Quack to School!
by Doreen Cronin (Author) and Betsy Lewin (Illustrator)

Booktalk: Farmer Brown has been invited to be a guest at the elementary school’s Farm Day! The animals excitedly practice their best classroom behavior: standing quietly in line, using their inside voices, and learning how to share. But then they find out that farm animals aren’t actually allowed in school (who knew they were considered a health code violation?!). Rules are rules, so Farmer Brown goes to school solo–or so he thinks–for while our favorite barnyard bunch don’t get high marks in rules, they do excel in disguise.

Snippet: Farmer Brown is so excited. He had not been to school in a very, very, very long time.

He must get the animals ready.