We Don’t Eat Our Classmates

Penelope Rex begins her first day of school eager to meet her classmates. Making friends proves difficult because Penelope is a dinosaur and sees the human children as food. The story follows her attempt to navigate a classroom where eating classmates is not acceptable. Its central conflict joins the experience of starting school with Penelope’s unusual appetite and her need to form friendships with the children around her. Penelope’s situation gives the first-day setting a dinosaur twist while keeping the focus on classmates and friendship.