From Eisner Award-winning creator Aron Nels Steinke, a vibrant, funny new series that charmingly captures the everyday antics of a fourth-grade classroom! Mr. Wolf has just started teaching at Hazelwood Elementary. He wants the first day of school to go well, but he's got his hands full with his new class. Some of his students include: Margot , who is new in town and is trying to make friends. Sampson , who brought something special to school for show-and-tell. Aziza , who just wants everyone to be quiet and do their work. And Penny , who is VERY sleepy because she has a new baby brother at home, goes missing! This delightful new series captures the everyday -- and unexpected -- ups and downs of a fourth-grade classroom.
Chiefly illustrations
Chronicles the everyday adventures of Mr. Wolf, a new teacher at Hazelwood Elementary school, and his class of wild and special students
It's the first day of school at Hazelwood Elementary, specifically in new teacher Mr. Wolf's fourth-grade classroom. We stick with the anthropomorphized animal teachers and students from Mr. Wolf's classroom all the way through end-of-the-day cleanup and the students' bus ride home, witnessing charmingly familiar moments along the way: Sampson has to go to the bathroom REALLY badly, Aziza has a hard time showing her work at math, Randy takes a survey on whether people prefer ice cream or farts, and new student Margot makes a good friend on the way home. Credibly, students are by turns playful, thoughtless, rude, and kind, and readers even get a glimpse into the ups and downs of a teacher's day, especially when the exhausted Penny falls asleep in a library box and disappears until recess. With calm intelligence and amusing, accessible realism, Steinke creates a cast in which any young reader will immediately find someone to embrace and a world that's invitingly recognizable. Friendly figures and compositions that favor flow over flash make the cartooning equally inviting.--Karp, Jesse Copyright 2018 Booklist
Horn Book Review
In this graphic novel, Eisner-winning cartoonist (for The Zoo Box) Steinke portrays the first day of school at Hazelwood Elementary, which sits in a woodland town inhabited by anthropomorphized animals. Mr. Wolf is a new fourth-grade teacher, and his soon-to-be students get their own introductory panels showing each ones last night of summer vacation. The subsequent narrative chronicles the classs first day together, with vignettes showcasing all of the days ups (playing tag at recess, making a diagram of Which do you like better--farts or ice cream?) and downs (a kid goes missing during library, the schools resident rats steal a lunch). The cheerful plot depicts each character with care and depth, and subplots involving the grownups offer insight into what happens with teachers behind the scenes. Internal dialogue (represented through thought bubbles) and visual gags (such as Mr. Wolf reading Little Red Riding Hood) extend the story and provide levity. (In one scene, a speech bubble physically overwhelms a caregiver whose child talks his ear off about her day.) The soft-hued colors and loose, unpretentious lines focus attention on characters expressions, and solid fills of background color emphasize moments of classroom action and child-friendly humor. elisa gall (c) Copyright 2018. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
TextSeries: Mr. Wolf's Class ; 1Publisher: New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 153 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: