Read Chu's First Day Of School Board Book (2000)

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Author

Neil Gaiman

Genre

Humor

Series

Chu

Rating

3.72 of 5 Votes: 2

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ISBN

0062371495 (ISBN13: 9780062371492)

Language

English

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Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble

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Chu's First Day Of School Board Book (2000) - Plot & Excerpts

I remember how I grabbed Chu's Day from the shelf of a Barnes & Noble store and enjoyed reading the book. Neil Gaiman and Adam Rex are back (and so is Chu!) in this follow-up picturebook, Chu's First Day of School. Although the illustrations in this book were as adorable as those in the first, I thought that Chu's First Day of School lacked the charm that the first one had. Nevertheless, this book still makes a nice, short read-aloud for younger children. Really a far cry from the first one, which has a really funny story. This one is just the typical "I'm scared of school / I'm at school / School was ok!" story that just .... zzzzzzzzzzz. I also felt like the text and pictures don't establish Chu's positive experience of school at all; he does his big sneeze, and the other characters smile a bit in their reaction shot, then it cuts immediately to after school with the parents. Illustrations are luminous and full of great details as before, however.