What is your favorite day of the year? Is it a holiday? Your birthday? The first day of school? Musa’s teacher’s favorite holiday is the first day of school. He and his new classmates wonder why because there are so many other great days of the year! They each have their own favorite day: Eid, Rosh Hashanah, Las Posadas, and Pi Day. As we follow along in the book, Ms. Gupta (their teacher) invites each student to introduce their own favorite day of the year to their classmates. Together with their families, they bring in food and decorations and tell share with their friends the joys of their favorite days.

As you follow these four new friends on their journey sharing with each other and their classmates, you are reminded how sharing small or big parts of ourselves can help create lasting memories and friendships. This is a perfect back to school book that shows how we may all start out differently, but in the end, we share in the togetherness that is a classroom community.

In addition to a wonderful story of friendship and the beginning of the school year, this book is exquisitely illustrated and has fantastic end papers.