You Don’t Have to Be a Kangaroo to Clean Up

Learning & Growing

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You Don’t Have to Be a Kangaroo to Clean Up introduces a charming, yet frustrated marsupial who doesn’t quite understand why she is always left to manage cleanup after playdates with her friends, Tuck Turtle and Wally Koala. A visit to Grandma Kangaroo results in a clever fix to her problem and a fun solution for Kaylie and her pals. This warm-hearted story highlights fairness and the value of teamwork as the best cleanup crew in the forest comes together.

G.B. Gurland has been an educator for over forty years, as professor emerita and former director of the program in speech-language pathology at Brooklyn College. She has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and young adults with reading and literacy challenges. She has edited and published several workbooks on vocabulary development and is the author of the highly praised middle grade novels The Secret Files of Phineas Foster (2016) and Orphan’s Bond (2021), as well as the delightful Olives, Where Are You? (2018); Emily Fisher-Word Maven (2019); and Soon, Almost, I’m Not Ready Yet (2023) for young readers.