Orem Library

Jim overcomes self-doubt and learns to laugh at his own shortcomings in this warm, reassuring story. So What? is the newest edition in the acclaimed Welcome to the First Grade! collection. Funny, quietly sensitive, and crisply written.

A first-grader is convinced he can't draw, but when encouraged demonstrates he can.

Despite her scabby knees and dirty fingernails, Geraldine knows that she is a princess inside and shows it through her behavior at home and in school.

Self-conscious about his ears, a dog tries doing a number of things to make them look better.

When two children pretend to be various animals, they discover how to be themselves.

Charlie, the smallest child in his first grade class, is amazed to discover that of the three pumpkins his teacher brings to school, the tiniest one has the most seeds.

Harriet the hamster is desperate to be adopted, so she gives her sister Patricia and herself glamorous makeovers in hopes they will get more attention when Hamster World has its huge annual sale.

Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.

George only likes things that are square like himself until a dream reminds him of how nice round can be.

When a little girl asks her mother about princesses, she learns that they are much like herself.