Daniel Goes to School (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood)

Good children’s book.

This book was probably the biggest influence for my daughter when preparing to start preschool. We read this almost everyday for a month before she started and it stuck with her the most out of all the other school books we purchased. My daughter refers to what she’s learned in this book quite often and it seems like she’s finally realized that her parents will always return to get her when they drop her off somewhere. It’s like a lightbulb turned on and this book helped her realize that she won’t be separated from her parents indefinitely. Not only has this helped with school drop-off, but she was even able to go to childcare at church without any separation anxiety! Why we love this book: 1. Focuses on parents coming back to pick up kids. -Daniel Tiger’s dad says “grown-ups come back” when he drops him off at school and Daniel then tells his classmate to make her feel better. At the end it shows the parents returning to pick up their kids, which ensures that “grown-ups come back”. -we used this catchphrase to prepare our daughter and she even tells her teacher now that mommy and daddy always comes back. 2. Storyline is perfect for a 2 year old (&up). -simple enough for a 2 year old to follow along and storyline follows general preschool routine: drop off, drawing/craft time, circle time, lunch, pick-up. There’s no nap time or outside playground or going potty involved in this story. 3. Daniel involves the reader. -Daniel starts and end the book saying hi to the reader to ride along with him to school. He then says goodbye at the end and summarizes. I kind of took my own spin off of this last page by making it seem like Daniel Tiger was preparing my daughter for her first day of school and to remember that mommy and daddy will always come back. (Worked like a charm!)

Hark! Attend, ye parents and wee bairns, to a most delightful tale, newly bound in colours bright and filled with lessons of the heart. The chronicle be titled Daniel Tiger Goes to School, and it doth tell of a young princeling of the feline sort, who ventures forth unto the hallowed halls of learning. Young Daniel, noble of stripe and ever clad in his red raiment, is sore afeared to part from mother’s tender grace. “Will she stay?” he crieth in silent thought. But lo! Wise words doth echo through his furry crown: ‘Grown-ups come back,’ quoth the song, a soothing balm to all parting sorrows. The schoolhouse—nay, a realm of gentle order and kind instruction—is ruled by fair Lady Harriet, who tendeth her charges with patience as endless as the stars. There, Daniel meets comrades true: the owl of intellect, the tigress of strength, and the kitten of mirth. Together they dance, they draw, they dine—such joys as rival those of Oberon’s court! Though anxiety first doth grip the lad’s brave heart, by tale’s end he is emboldened, his courage burnished as if by Vulcan’s own fire. Methinks he learneth thus: that whilst the bosom of family is warm, the world beyond it is not without its cheer. Would I commend this tome to others? Aye, a thousand times aye! It doth teach with subtle hand and gentle tone, that even the smallest of us can bear change, and greet it not with dread, but with roaring triumph. Five stars o'er five, and a royal paw's approval.

I bought this book because we were less than a week out from my daughter’s first day of preschool, and really first day not being watched by someone who wasn’t a family member, and she was saying she didn’t want to go. This book worked wonders! She’d never even watched Daniel tiger before and loved it! Book does a good job about telling the kids some of the fun activities they get to do in school and the focus is that grown ups say goodbye but always come back. I love that message and that the focus isn’t on how sad/scanty it is when parents drop you off- didn’t want something so make her worry about something she wasn’t worried about. Book got her excited and no tears on day one!

Really good book! I loved that it talked about parents come back. The parent in this book is more of Daniel tigers dad. Definitely helps my kiddo get more prepared to hopefully go to preschool soon.

This was a great book depicting everything that happes in pre school.Danial goes to school with his father..how he tries to say his father not to leave and what happens after his father leaves him.Daniel made friends in school ..everybody made pictures there and played and at the end as his father said grown up comes back.So it's nice book to encourage them to go to school and ensure them that grown up comes back at end of day.There was no sad part ..rather balanced and well thought descriptions.My son loved it.But I wish it to be a board book other than that it awesome book at awesome price.

Perfect my nervous/anxious 2 year old toddler who started going to school 3 days/week for 3 hours. We used “grownups come back,” as the reminder that we will return. We practiced the use of that phrase before he started school by demonstrating with dad leaving for work and returning or I’d run a chore and come back and say the phrase to help reinforce. He cried for about a week, but even his teachers used as a go-to phrase and it was definitely calming and reassuring enough that he’d go right back to playing.

It is too cute very sturdy