Turkey Goes to School

Description

Turkey is off to school - or is he? - in this addition to the much-loved Turkey Trouble series. School is starting soon and Turkey can't wait. Each day, he and his barnyard friends practice their writing and math. But when the school bus rolls up, they are booted off. It turns out that animals aren't allowed to attend school. Pig calls it 'hogwash,' and Turkey agrees. All he has to do is find a way to show the students and the principal that turkeys - and their friends - do belong in school. With a gobble, gobble here; a gobble, gobble there; and a few clever costumes, he just might.

Wendi Silvano was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and has lived in Oregon, Colorado, and Peru. The author of the Turkey Trouble series, she has a BA in early childhood education and taught preschool and elementary school for eleven years. She is the mother of five children and the owner of an assortment of odd pets that are not nearly as clever as Turkey. She now writes from her home in Colorado, where she enjoys hiking, reading, and playing the piano. Visit her online at www.wendisilvano.com. Lee Harper is the author-illustrator of the books Coyote, The Emperor's Cool Clothes, and Snow! Snow! Snow! Lee is also the illustrator of the Turkey Trouble series by Wendi Silvano as well as the Woolbur series, written by Leslie Helakoski. Lee has four children, a German shepherd, a Great Pyrenees, two barn cats, eleven chickens, four sheep, and two pigs...but still no turkeys. Yet. He lives with his wife in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Visit him online at www.leeharperart.com.

"The watercolor-and-pencil illustrations feature quirky characters with wide eyes and expressive features and a relatively diverse class of children. A cute twist on both the farm and school themes." -Kirkus Reviews