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Kindergarten

A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning

Kindergarten( )
Author: Diamond, Julie
Foreword by: Feiffer, Jules
ISBN:978-1-59558-348-2
Publication Date:May 2011
Publisher:New Press, The
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.99
Book Description:

Hailed by renowned educator Deborah Meier as "a rare and special pleasure to read", Kindergarten explores a year in the life of a kindergarten classroom through the eyes of the gifted veteran teacher and author Julie Diamond. In this lyrical, beautifully written first-person account, Diamond explains the logic behind the routines and rituals children need to thrive.

Book Details
Pages:272
Detailed Subjects: Education / Classroom Management
Education / Curricula
Education / Teaching / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.72 Inches
Book Weight:0.688 Pounds
Author Biography
Diamond, Julie (Author)
Jules Feiffer was born on January 26, 1929. While working as a cartoonist, his work appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, The Nation, and The New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his editorial cartooning in The Village Voice in 1986. His other awards include a George Polk Award for his cartoons; an Obie Award for the play Little Murders; an Oscar for the anti-military short subject animation, Munro; and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Writers Guild of America and the National Cartoonist Society.

He is currently focusing on writing and illustrating books for children and young adults including The Man in the Ceiling, A Room with a Zoo and Bark, George! He has been a professor at the Yale School of Drama, Northwestern University, Dartmouth, and Stony Brook Southampton College.

Feiffer has been honored with major retrospectives at the New York Historical Society, the Library of Congress and The School of Visual Arts.

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