It is the first day of school in Chad, Africa. Children are filling the road. “Will they give us a notebook?” Thomas asks. “Will they give us a pencil?” “Will I learn to read?” But when he and the other children arrive at the schoolyard, they find no classroom, no desks. Just a teacher. “We will build our school,” she says. “This is our first lesson.”
- ISBN: 9780547243078
- Author: Rumford, James
- Illustrator: Rumford, James
- Published: 2010 , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Themes: construction, Learning, School
- Descriptors: Africa, Chad, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction
- No. of pages: 32