Daniel Goes to School (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood) Paperback – Picture Book, July 1, 2014

I got this book before I realized it was a tv show. My daughter enjoys reading this book everyday, I bought it to prepare her for what to expect when she starts school. It’s so cute and affordable. Highly recommend especially if your child is a fan of Daniel tiger.

This is pretty much straight from the TV episode which my child does like. We read this book a lot. Sometimes there are tears sometimes not. I think it is helpful for preparing little ones for school. We repeat “grown ups come back” all the time. The other books we tried “llama llama misses momma” was too sad and caused immediate tears and anxiety so that’s put up for now. “My baby little one” makes us both teary, but we still read it often and it has a sweet message. For all the parents looking for ways to make school easier: Talking, reading, normalizing school and and acknowledging feelings seems to help my child. Good luck! You can do it! And so can your child!

This book is very sweet with a good message. “Your grown up will always come back”I bought this book for my daughter when she started pre school and it helped her when I left because she knew her grown up would always be back. Easy read with great illustrations.

My 2 (almost 3 year old) was starting daycare and we got this book for her. She loved it. She asked us to read it daily for weeks and when we started school I think it helped when I told her I had to leave to go to work! Such a great book to help kids with the transition.

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.

Great little books with believable stories about fist time in school for toddlers. The pictures are captivating as well.

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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!)