The Backward Day

by Ruth Krauss

Book Overview

Imagine your whole day lived backward, from beginning to end. When you got up, you'd put on your jacket, then your shirt and pants, and over those your underwear, because after all, backward is backward, and on a backward day backward is the way everything has to be. You'd walk downstairs backward and sit on your chair backward with your back to the table, and when your parents greeted you in the morning you'd say, of course, "Good night." But how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159017237X
• ISBN13: 9781590172377
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

a classic

I'm so glad that this book was reissued. As a preschool director for many years, there are some books that have become classics, but hard to find. This has always been a delightful read with young children. Learning and understanding routines, while incorporating that into their own egocentric world, can be a challenging yet important part of early childhood development.

Classic Read

I love the cover of this book. Sturdy hard cover with red fabric binding. My 5 1/2 year old enjoyed reading it but was left looking for more at the end. Overall, it is a good classic read.

Remember, I'm not five...

This book is bound beautifully and my boys liked the premise of the story. I thought it was boring, but then, I'm not five years old...