Chapters 4-6 Summary

Chapter 4, "Zinkoff's First Day," establishes that he is beginning his first year of school, but right away he has trouble with his mother, because he leaves the house before she is ready to walk him to school. From upstairs she yells at him to wait, using his first name, Donald. He is gone by the time she comes downstairs. When she rushes after him, she sees the long neck of Zinkoff's giraffe hat above those of the other children, even though she told him time and again not to wear it to school. The school is only three blocks away and he will be there before she can catch him so she lets him go. The first-grade teacher, Miss Meeks, is a little worried to see the giraffe hat, because it makes the other students giggle. She has been teaching for...