Miss Bindergarten and her class.
A series of children's books by Joseph Slate and Ashley Wolff.
This series focuses on the special events that happen with Miss Bindergarten and her 26 animal Kindergarten students, such as the first day of school, a field trip, and the 100th day of school.
Tropes:
- Agony of the Feet: Noah drops a rock on his foot in Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten.
- Alliterative Name: Lenny Loome, Patrica Parker, and Tommy Tuttle.
- Alphabetical Theme Naming: Each student's name begins with a letter of the alphabet.
- Ambiguously Jewish: Adam's last name is "Krupp".
- Annoying Younger Sibling: Christopher has one. Mostly averted with Franny's, as her little sister is only a tadpole.
- Art Shift: When shown up close, the animals look very realistic. But when far away, they look cartoony.
- Ascended to Carnivorism: Animals like quokkas are shown eating regular elementary school food, meat and all.
- Beach Episode: In Celebrates the Last Day of Kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten and the kindergarteners play around in the sprinklers while being dressed in swimwear.
- Big Eater: Downplayed with Quentin. He overloads his tray in the cafeteria. He ends up paying the price, though.
- Book Ends: Compare Gets Ready For Kindergarten with Celebrates The Last Day Of Kindergarten. On a more minor note, the start of the events always begins Adam, Brenda, and Christopher, etc. and ends with Zach.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Henry has a sweater with the letter "H" on it, while Ian has the letter "I" on his baseball cap.
- Carnivore Confusion: It's to be expected in a Funny Animal world. Patrica is a pig, but the cafeteria serves pepperoni pizza.
- Circus Episode: Plans A Circus With Kindergarten.
- Cute Bookworm: Ian. His favourite place is the library.
- Cute Kitten: Christopher the Cat, Jessie the Jaguar, Lenny the Lion, and Tommy the Tiger.
- Cool Teacher: The titular Miss Bindergarten.
- Didn't Think This Through: In Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten, Quentin's eyes end up being bigger than his stomach when he orders way too much in the cafeteria.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first book lacked the total Rhymes on a Dime style.
- First Day of School Episode: Gets Ready For Kindergarten.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The entire cast.
- Funny Background Event: All over the place in Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten.
- Gender-Equal Ensemble: Not counting the teacher and her pet, there are 13 boys and 13 girls in the class.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Quite a few of the female kids are shown to carry around their dolls often.
- Good Parents: All the shown parents.
- Goofy Print Underwear: In the first book, Danny is shown to wear white boxers with pumpkins on them.
- Heroic Dog: Miss Bindergarten is a dog and a Cool Teacher.
- Holding Hands: Wanda and Vicky do this during their field trip (Platonic version, of course).
- Kangaroo Pouch Ride: Kiki's little sibling rides in the mother's pouch.
- Not My Lucky Day: In Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten, just about everything goes wrong for everyone. For starters, the titular teacher burns her toast, accidentally cracks an egg onto her bird's tail, loses the beads to her necklace, spills her juice, and gets a flat tire all in the same morning—and that's before school even starts...
- It gets more hectic at school through the book with the students having their own bad luck. The highlights include Christoper having a Potty Failure and has to wear borrowed trousers for the rest of the book, Danny squirting Emily with a spray bottle and it causes her to blow her trunk at him for the remainder of the story, Ian accidentally tearing a page of a book he and Christopher were reading, Jessie dropping a bug jar which caused Kiki to cut her thumb, Quinten overeating and getting sick, and Sara getting soaked with Raffie's apple juice first and then getting water on her tail later.
- Oh, Crap!: In Gets Ready for Kindergarten, Miss Bindergarten's (unspoken) reaction to arriving at 7:00am and finding her room still in boxes.
- One Head Taller: Non-romantic examples; when standing together, Adam and Christopher are shown to be at least a head taller than Brenda. It's worth noting that rodent characters are usually one head shorter than animals of other types.
- Out Sick: In "Stays Home from Kindergarten", Miss Bindergarten calls in sick with cold-like symptoms. Franny, Lenny and Raffie get it too and the book ends with Miss Bindergarten coming back and the substitute teacher coming down with the same illness.
- Playful Otter: Ophelia, as well as her two little twin siblings.
- Potty Emergency: Christopher has one at the start of Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten. It ends up in a Potty Failure, and he has to wear borrowed trousers for the rest of the day.
- Rhymes on a Dime
- Shout-Out: In Has A Wild Day In Kindergarten, Christopher is shown to wear a Superman shirt underneath his sweater.
- Shrinking Violet: Ian the Iguana.
- Christopher the Cat might also count, but to a lesser extent.
- Sick Episode: Stays Home from Kindergarten. Happens to the titular teacher, Franny, Lenny, Raffie, and finally the substitute teacher, Mr. Tusky.
- Slice of Life: Basically everyday life with anthropomorphic animals taking the roles of humans.
- Sneaking Snacks: Patrica sneaks a cracker on the bus ride during her first day.
- Stealth Pun: Wanda is a Wild West Wolf.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Some of the students' are revealed in Celebrates The 100th Day Of kindergarten, as shown on their "I Could Eat 100 [Food]s" drawings.
- Potato Chips for Adam.
- Peanuts for Brenda.
- Ice Cream Cones for Christopher.
- Bananas for Gwen.
- Candies for Henry.
- Pickles for Ian.
- Crackers for Kiki.
- French Fries for Noah.
- Apples for Patricia.
- Watermelon for Quentin.
- Pizza for Tommy.
- Grapes for Ursula.
- True Blue Femininity: In most of her appearances, Ursula the Uakari Monkey is usually seen wearing a form of blue clothing ranging from outfits to hair accessories.
- The Von Trope Family: Sarah Von Hoff.
- World of Funny Animals
