MAKING FRIENDS THE FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL A GREAT EXPERIENCEYoung children often experience fear or anxiety about going to school for the first time. Many experience anxiety when starting a new class, even though they may have gone to school before. Although these fears may appear small and transitory to parents and other adults, they could be very real to the young children who experience them. These fears could sometimes masquerade as stomach aches and headaches and can prevent the appropriate adjustment of young children to the school environment.
TJ CAT'S FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: HOW TJ CAT AND PUPPY D BECAME FRIENDS is a short children's story that deals specifically with young TJ Cat who experiences fear in going to school, primarily because he doesn't have any friends in his class and is unsure whether his teacher will like him. Although he is told by adults that school would be fun, TJ Cat is not convinced, until he finds out for himself that school can be fun.
TJ CAT'S FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: HOW TJ CAT AND PUPPY D BECAME FRIENDS shows how TJ Cat makes friends and learns to create a friendly environment, where he and his other classmates prosper and excel. This is the beginning of a series of stories that aim to captivate young children with its diversity of characters and situations that young children would appreciate and like.
TJ CAT'S FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: HOW TJ CAT AND PUPPY D BECAME FRIENDS is also an early reader that helps young children to learn to read independently. The nature of the stories is such that it encourages children to want to find out more.
TJ CAT'S FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL: HOW TJ CAT AND PUPPY D BECAME FRIENDS also helps children to

• Learn to make friends
• Develop empathy
• Build emotional intelligence ( in dealing with their own feelings and feelings of others)
• Develop pride in doing the right thing
• Learn to be brave, kind, and care about others
• Develop a life-long love of reading, and
• Become independent readers