It’s the kind of book that invites children in to spend time with it. The illustrations are so full of small detail with lots happening on each two-page spread. The story is a simple one, that of a gnome child who is disappointed to be told he s/he won’t be starting kindergarten for another year, so s/he sets off to spend the first day of school visiting all the forest animals in their different schools, watching how their school day progresses. Each two-page spread shows a cross-section of another school, full of details (both pictorial and small word blurbs) showing all that’s happening at the mouse school, the bunny school, the hedgehog school, etc. At the end of the day Pom returns home to tell Momo about all that s/he is looking forward to in Kindergarten, and Momo asserts she will be right there waiting to hear about those adventures. The one editorial adjustment I would have wished for was more distinction in the font between the paragraphs on each page that tell the through story and the blurbs that share the details. The reader is unlikely to read all the words on every page every time they peruse the book, but for read-aloud purposes, it would be better if the continuing story stood out a little better, as it sometimes gets lost among all the other words on the pages.