It's Picture Day Today! (Richard Jackson Books

An annual event in every elementary-school classroom is the taking of the group portrait. Here, the 'kids' are made up of buttons and bits of string, cardboard, feathers, grommets, and such, and are a pretty disheveled lot before Glue (late - stuck in traffic) arrives to sort everyone out and settle everything down. An imaginative invitation to seeing, to creative crafts, to story-hour performance.