Miriam Cohen

George does not receive enough cards on Valentine's Day, so Jim and the other first-graders put on their thinking caps.

Adults and Other Children follows four women as they navigate life from the confusion and innocence of childhood to the bizarre and darkly humorous complexities of adulthood. Along the way, we meet a vindictive, and imaginary, nanny, who casts doubts about the true identity of a little girl's new baby sister; A group of friends who spend their time obsessing over the gory details of a spate of recent crimes; A college professor who has her boss fired...

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

Describes the experiences of two sisters growing up in Brooklyn in the time of Shirley Temple movies and trolleys.

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

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

Second-grader Jim isn't sure what he wants to be for Halloween but he knows he wants to be scary.

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

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

A first grader learns to accept himself as he is.