Countdown to Kindergarten
Alison McGhee
Harry Bliss

Koala Books,
32 pp., pbk., $12.95
0864614756

This story is about a very young girl starting kindergarten in ten days. A few days before she finds out that they have to know how to tie thier shoelaces. eventhough she can caount backwards from ten, she doesn't know how to tie her shoelaces. She tries every single solution she knows to try to learn.

Will she make it into kindergarten?

As soon as I saw the title of the book I thought it would be a good book for someone starting Kindergarten.It would be most suitable for four-year-olds because they are just starting school. It would be good as a bedtime story but I hope the child can tie their shoe laces.It only has a little writing but heaps of pictures.

I give it four stars.

Tanya, 10, Canberra