We Love First Grade Books

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.