Product Description

When Jessica's teacher tells everyone in class to find 100 things to bring to school for their 100th day, Jessica starts to worry. She wants to bring something really good. but what?

When Jessica reaches the 99th day, she really starts to worry. She still doesn't know what to bring! Could the best collection of 100 things be right under her eyes?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65084 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 32 pages

Amazon.com
Jessica is worried. On the 95th day of first grade, her teacher announces that the class will celebrate the 100th day of school by bringing in collections of 100 things. Being a chronic worrier, Jessica thinks and thinks all week. What will she bring? 100 ice cubes? Too melty. Marshmallows? Too sticky. Her siblings suggest 100 lipsticks and 100 yo-yos, but Jessica rejects those ideas. When her classmates start bringing in their collections, Jessica is in anguish. Why didn't she think of peanuts, or paper clips, or peppermints? The 100th day dawns, and Jessica still doesn't know what to bring. Will inspiration strike in time?

This book is for all the small worrywarts out there, the ones who fret over losing their first tooth, missing the school bus, or getting their math homework right. Jessica's ingenious solution incorporates the ideas and, most important, the love from her family. Arthur Howard's cartoony illustrations capture Jessica's big-eyed anxiety and big-smiled relief at the end of her 100th day worries. (Ages 5 to 8) --Emilie Coulter

From Publishers Weekly
For Jessica, a worrier by nature, there's a dark underside to her first grade's 100th Day celebration. In honor of the occasion, her teacher wants each student to round up a collection of 100 small things. The girl spends an entire week ruminating--"100 ice cubes? Too melty. 100 marshmallows? Too sticky. 100 toothpicks? Too pointy"--and the pressure builds as all the other kids' collections start rolling in. But Jessica is fortunate in her family: seeing her bereft and despondent on the morning of the 100th day, each member pitches in (10 buttons from her father, 10 barrettes from her sister, etc.), and her collection of their contributions (which includes 10 "Xs" from a comforting letter written by her mother) is hailed by her teacher as "100 bits of love!" This is a knowing and funny book that succeeds without patronizing its fretful heroine or sentimentalizing the supportive response of her family. Cuyler's (The Biggest Best Snowman) tight text keeps the story moving apace; Howard's (the Mr. Putter and Tabby series) crisp and colorful cartoon illustrations rendered with an energetic ink line add just the right touch of freneticism. Ages 5-8. (Jan.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 2-While the other first graders are busy assembling their collections of 100 things to celebrate the 100th day of school, Jessica is busy worrying. She doesn't have a hundred of anything. She comes up with a lot of ideas, but then rejects them all. "100 ice cubes? Too melty. 100 marshmallows? Too sticky. 100 toothpicks? Too pointy." On the morning of the big day, she begins to cry, and her parents and siblings race around the house, coming up with nine mini-collections that, put together, equal 90 nifty things. Jessica accepts their tokens, but worries about finding 10 more items before her classmates present their collections. A note from her mom in Jessica's lunchbox gives her a great idea-and provides the perfect way for the child to complete her assignment. Howard's cartoons feature warmly drawn characters with expressive facial expressions, and pastel color washes offsetting the white space. The artist accurately depicts Jessica's mini-collections, so readers can count each group of 10 objects-all the way to 100. Teachers and students will enjoy this sweet story as they prepare their own celebrations. A worthy companion to Joseph Slate's Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten (Dutton, 1998).
Lisa Gangemi Krapp, Rockville Centre Public Library, NY
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

The Best 100th Day Book

There are 100's of 100 Day books out in the market, but this BOOK is the BEST one by far. The reason why I love this book so much is that it is always every child's worry about what they will do for their collection and this books puts every one at ease. A wonderful, fun book!

PLAYROOM STORY OR BOARDROOM METAPHOR ?
Margery Cuyler (Author), Arthur Howard (Illustrator) have done a brilliant job. They have taken an anchor senior management tool that has strong, striding legs on four continents for three decades; and given it a fresh and strikingly relevant slant... dressed up as a kiddies book.

Never mind that the kids get a serious teaching that can last them a life time, if they get under the 100-Day Action Projects skin and grasp the blunder that Mr. Martin (the kindergarten fall-guy in the story) makes, because he is as clueless as most senior managers and many school teachers are, when it comes to cutting-edge project management.

Peter Drucker's The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials) includes the catalytic seeds of 100-Day Action Projects - the way, we at One Big Idea Consulting Limited NZ taught in Sub Saharan Southern Africa timber, sugar and commodity sectors with massive success in the 1980-2000 era as we waited for Nelson Mandela to restore socio-economic sanity to the sub-continent.

Collaberating with Robert Schaffer High-Impact Consulting: How Clients and Consultants Can Work Together to Achieve Extraordinary Results (Completely Revised and Updated) and more recently Rapid Results!: How 100-Day Projects Build the Capacity for Large-Scale Change thousands of 100-Day Action Projects seeded the thinking of hundreds of soon-to-be managers with 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change.

Jessica's story is artfully simple, as all great teaching is. It would be a shame if senior management around the world missed it while they struggled through 'education' like The Six Sigma Handbook: The Complete Guide for Greenbelts, Blackbelts, and Managers at All Levels, Revised and Expanded Edition and 'training' like Six Sigma for Dummies which might easily be 'Six Sigma By Dummies For Dummies'.

Our own educational and training programme 100-Day Action Projectsî Always Chart Before You Change is simple, straight-forward and successful and it would have saved Jessica (the plucky little heroine in Cuyler and Howard's book/story) all the agonising worries from her 100th Day project.

Of course, if Jassica is the chronic worry wart that she is made out to be
in the book, then she needs help outside of management, something like. I'm OK--You're OK should do the trick.

Before you, as a senior manager, authorise/design the next mangement project in your life, study this book very carefully, before you launch it. Just keep Jessica in mind, and make sure you are not another Mr. Martin full of kind intentions and clueless as to reality.

100th Day Worries
"100th Day Worries" is a story about a girl who is supposed to bring a collection of one hundred things into school for the 100th day of school. She worries about it up until the night before the 100th day still with no idea about what kind of collection she is going to take into school. The next morning, she was still stumped, so she turned to her family for help. They gave her each groups of ten things to take into school. So her problem was solved and she ended up having the best collection because her collection was "filled with love".
I think that this is a pretty good book. I didn't really think too much of it, but I'm sure many other people think highly of it. I didn't think it had too much of a meaning to it. The plot was pretty well put together, but it wasn't anything to get all hyped up about. Overall, I think it was an ok book.