Cohen, Miriam

Alex has a hard time adjusting to his new first grade and tells wild stories to impress the other students.

The first grade's costume party is interrupted by the third grade bully.

A first grader learns to accept himself as he is.

When he and some other first graders get lost in the museum, Jim decides to be brave and go find the teacher.

Impatient to begin reading, a first grader doesn't realize that there is more to reading than books.

Even though he doesn't like his part in the first grade play, Jimmy saves the performance when one of the key players gets stage fright.

At an end-of-the-year beach picnic, Anna Maria, Jim, and the other children realize they will miss first grade and their teacher, but decide they are ready for second grade after all.

The first grade is distressed by an intelligence test that fails to measure true aptitude.

Jim's anxieties on his first day of school are happily forgotten when he makes a new friend.

The first graders, who are excited about their Valentine's Day cards, only send one to their best friends even after the teacher asks them to send one to everybody in class, and when George does not receive as many as others, his buddies play music and dance around him to cheer him up.