Instilled with confidence by his parents, a young boy has a great first day of kindergarten.

Nervous about the first day of school, Oliver brings an alligator to school for protection.

Emily is worried about starting school for the first time, but Foxy waves his magic tail to provide what she needs to be ready.

Marco the bird is eager to start school because he wants to learn how to reach the moon, and although he does not accomplish that on his first day, he does make a new friend.

A young child imagines going off to Kindergarten as a journey to another planet.

"Children have fun at school experiencing familiar classroom activities for the first time"--

Bear, feeling very grown-up, says goodbye to his stuffed rabbit, Floppy, and starts his first day of school but soon he is missing Floppy and worrying that he is not ready to be a big bear, after all.

Feeling anxious about her first day of school, little Noni forges a tentative friendship with an outgoing little girl who helps her discover that she can belong and succeed in a world that once filled her with dread.

Emma the pirate does not want to start kindergarten, so she returns to her preschool classroom to stir up a mutiny against kindergarten.

A cautious mouse named Tiny gives advice to his best friend, an exuberant hippopotamus named Penelope, on such things as what to wear and what to take for show-and-tell on the first day of school.