Vera cannot wait for the day when she starts school, but the first day does not go exactly as she has anticipated.

Even though they are not in the same class, two young friends are glad that they decided to give school a try.

"It's the best time of year, everyone is going back to school! What's your favorite class? Are you just like the hedgehogs, the bats, the ducks, or...?" - back cover

Little Critter is nervous about starting school. Lift the flaps to find out what surprises are in store for Little Critter on his first day of school!

Wanda the witch accidentally ends up in a class for fairies on her first day of school.

After his parrot companion flies away, a rough and tough pirate experiences anxiety on his first day as a school bus driver, echoing some of the concerns expressed by the young students in his care.

"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...

In rhyming text based on "The night before Christmas," Billy is too nervous to sleep the night before he begins preschool, but a kind teacher and new friends fill the day with fun.

When a teacher asks her students on the first day of school what they wish for in the coming year, the answers range from having a good school picture to receiving a perfect report card.