It's Dat's first day of school in a new country! Dat and his Mah made a long journey to get here, and Dat doesn't know the language. To Dat, everything everybody says – from the school bus driver to his new classmates – sounds like gibberish. How is Dat going to make new friends if they can't understand each other? Luckily there's a friendly girl in Dat's class who knows that there are other ways to communicate, besides just talking. Could she help make sense of the gibberish?
About Young Vo
Young Vo
learned to draw before he could write. He drew a lot of characters,
then began to write stories for them. There were not many job choices
that he could make, so he decided to be an animator, illustrator, and
author. Now he writes and draws his stories before the sun rises, then during the day, he animates. His website is at https://www.youngvoart.com/
Activities & Links
- Check out this read along at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxM9Cjows_Q
- Watch a talk with the author from the Politics and Prose Bookstore at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6MyFTgzSI&t=32s
- The Colorful Apple blog has a post about teaching inclusion with this book at https://thecolorfulapple.com/including-others-with-gibberish/
- Vo uses dingbats in his illustrations to represent the gibberish Dat hears. Learn about this type of glyph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat
- If you want another book about school check out the rest of the 2024 Ladybug Longlist about school at https://nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2024/02/ladybug-longlist-school.html and the 2022 titles at https://nhbookcenter.blogspot.com/2022/02/ladybug-longlist-school.html
- Looking for more books about the first day of school? Consider The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López or We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins.
- If you enjoy immigrant experience stories you may want to read Watercress by Andrea Wang and Jason Chin or Saffron Ice Cream by Rashin Kheiriyeh
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