Sarah is afraid to start at a new school, but both she and the reader are in for a surprise when she gets to her class.

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

Cocoa the horse does not want Cowgirl Kate to go to school without him.

Faizah relates how she feels on the first day her sister, sixth-grader Asiya, wears a hijab to school.

As a new school year begins, a young girl is filled with school spirit as she zips her book bag shut, rides the bus, enjoys her classes, and eagerly anticipates the next day.

Nervous monsters attending school for the first time learn new things, make friends, and sample Chef Octi's special School Gruel.

On her very first day of school, Sophie is reluctant to make friends with the other children, preferring to play with two squash she grew in her garden--but when a particularly persistent boy named Steven gives her a packet of seeds as an apology for accidentally ripping her picture, she realizes that it just takes time to grow a friend.

Forky helps Bonnie have the best first day of kindergarten ever!

Little Shark is very excited about the first day of school, but Big Shark sleeps late and they miss the bus.

A young girl feels out of place on her first day of school in a new country until she discovers that it only takes one friend to make her new surroundings feel like home.