Nan Gregory

In this realistic fiction, a little girl uses her imagination to show what she would do to tell her dad how much she hated waiting for him after kindergarten. It starts out with her telling the reader her favorite parts about school, then her least favorite part: pick up. She doesn't want to wait anymore, so she dreams up a world where she could tell her dad to wait for her on the moon, then she would do fun things without him, and he would have to wait and wait. Then when she came to get him, he would never be late again to pick her up from school because he knew how she felt. So when the father finally comes to get his daughter, he acts like it was not a big deal. The girl tells him how scared she was, and she lifts him up and puts her on his shoulders, and carries her home, just like in her imagination.… (more)