David Goes to School by David Shannon.
This book is about a young, rambunctious boy who goes to school. It is the sequel to the book No David! written by the same author. The book starts out by the teacher yelling at David for everything he is doing wrong. David eventually does enough to get him after school time with the teacher. At the end of the book David makes his wrong doings, right and is able to go home.
This book is just fun! It is fun for the reader and listeners. The pictures are simple and but very funny. There are very few words on the each page which makes this book great to emergent learners and readers. Students all remember their first few days of school when they had to learn all the rules and it was sometimes hard to remember them all like David is experiencing.
This book would be great for prek to 2nd grade students. It may be a too easy for students in the third grade but they may also enjoy reading it every once in awhile. Young students can look at the pictures in this book and figure out what is going on which makes reading for younger children more enjoyable. This book can be used to get students excited about reading. It may also be used to help students remember the things they aren't suppose to to at school. Students will laugh with this book and be entertained by the silly things David does. Reading this book to students or just having it in the classroom will spark students enjoyment to read because it is just a fun book. It doesn't contain any words that English Language Learners don't hear every day so they too can enjoy this book without getting frustrated.

I liked your comment about it being an "easy" book for third grade but that they might still enjoy it. I was surprised last year when I bought a David Christmas book for the girls from Scholastic and some of my middle school boys were looking through it and laughing when I was unpacking the box of books. Of course, it was way below their reading level, but as you said, David is just a fun character and they still enjoyed seeing David's latest adventures.
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