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<b>Find out how butterflies in your tummy are a good thing in this fresh take on being nervous for the first day of school.</b><br><br>When a little girl wakes up on the first day of school, the butterflies in her stomach feel positively giant-sized! She really wants her mom to stay with her, on this first day.<br> As she and her mom make their way to school, Mom explains how the butterflies are a<i> good</i> thing. Everyone gets them (including parents) and they are a sign of something exciting happening—that we're about to learn and grow from a new experience and they can help us through it.<br> So with the butterflies as her guide, the girl soars into her first day.<br> Beloved children's songwriter Justin Roberts brings one of his most popular songs to the page, alongside beautifully tender illustrations by Paola Escobar, in a story guaranteed to help readers of all ages reframe their first-day nerves as first-day excitement.