When summer transitions to fall, so too must kids back-to-school. Tom Brenner and Jen Hill brilliantly describe the changeover season, helping little ones prepare for the start of the new school year.
Characters: No named characters but the illustrations depict elementary-age kids, their parents, and their educators finishing their summertime activities and getting ready for the first day of school.
Theme: transition
Conflict: The challenge of getting from here to there i.e. moving from one mental space to another
Plot: The signs of fall reveal themselves.
Parents notify their kids that summer is ending and that they must finish summer.
Parents and educators help the kids prepare for fall and the start of school.
The first day of school arrives and the kids settle in.
Perspective: Third-person narrator
Style: poetic
Setting: suburban
