What does it mean to have high expectations for five-year-old learners? In one of the author's
classrooms children are treated as authors as world citizens and as confident responsible
community and family contributors. Kindergartners publish their own stories and keep them on
the same shelves as books from libraries and bookstores. In addition to books these young
students also produce their own plays thank-you cards and math problems. Zaragoza Dwyer and
Brownie (the class mascot) invite new teachers along as they take one class of children through
a month-by-month journey of authorship literacy development poetry positive interaction and
imagination. This book is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students of education
early childhood and teachers of English-language learners. It can also be of value to scholars
of constructivist and or critical theory.
