Bee My Valentine by Miriam Cohen
It's Valentine's Day and the first graders are excited about the cards they will receive. Their teacher tells the children to send a Valentine's card to everyone in the class, so that nobody will feel left out. However, in their eagerness to send the best cards the first graders don't remember to send cards to everyone This upsets George who does not get as many Valentines as everybody else. Luckily, his friends know just how to cheer him up and as they play music and dance around him, it is one happy Valentine's Day party for everybody after all A reissue of Miriam Cohen's book with new art, provides a realistic insight into the hearts and minds of a special group of first graders. Ronald Himler's new pencil-and-watercolor illustrations skillfully use body language and facial expression to chart the children's emotional highs and lows.
Miriam Cohen is Evalyn Clark Professor of History in the Department of Women's Studies at Vassar College. Her book, Workshop to Office: Two Generations of Italian Women in New York City (1993, Cornell University Press) was a finalist for the Thomas Znaniecki Prize of the American Sociological Association. Her specialties include the history of American women and the history of twentieth-century social reform. She has published numerous articles on the history of social welfare, including Reconsidering Schooling and the American Welfare State, which was selected as one of the most important articles published by the History of Education Quarterly in its first fifty years. Miriam was also a senior advisory editor of the Encyclopedia of Women in American History (M.E. Sharpe, 2002). Series Editor Carol Berkin is a well-known women's historian and the author of many popular and scholarly books, including Civil War Wives. She is Professor of History Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and she is a member of the Society of American Historians.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781595720863 |
| ISBN 10 | 1595720863 |
| Title | Bee My Valentine |
| Author | Miriam Cohen |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Star Bright Books |
| Year published | 2009-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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