Cohen, Miriam

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.

When the light in the classroom incubator burns out, two friends are brought together again as they act to save the lives of the unhatched chickens.

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.

When Jim's dog is killed, the other first graders experience with him his natural reactions to death.

The first graders learn to accept the new boy, who is blind, as just like themselves.

Four stories about Mimmy, who is six, and her four-year-old sister Sophie; their momma, poppa, and grandparents, who emigrated from Russia; and their Brooklyn neighborhood during the Depression.

The first graders get tired of Anna Maria's bossy ways during the Thanksgiving preparations.

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