Kindergarten Diary

Starting kindergarten can be a little scary. But Annalina shows us there are lots of new and exciting things to look forward to—meeting your teacher, playing on the monkey bars, feeding the pet tortoise, and making new friends. Experience the ups and downs of the first days of kindergarten through Annalina's very own diary (as told to Antoinette Portis) and discover why the kids in room 2K are just fine!

The New York Times - Sherie Posesorski

Few things make a child's imaginings go into overdrive like the first day of school, as Antoinette Portis delightfully captures in Kindergarten Diary…The abundance of new experiences in Kindergarten Diary finds visual form in Portis's warmly comic mixed-media illustrations. Annalina's scrapbook diary…is evoked in collage-style pictures against a background of school notebook paper. Her observations are spot-on kindergartner-size reports from the front.

Antoinette Portis made her picture-book debut with the bestselling Not a Box, which was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Theodore Seuss Geisel Honor Book in 2007. Not a Stick followed, as well as her most recent book, A Penguin Story.

Antoinette graduated from kindergarten with a major in finger painting and a minor in show-and-tell. Later she graduated from the UCLA School of Fine Arts with a degree in studio art (which is like finger painting and show-and-tell combined). Antoinette lives in Los Angeles.