New Releases by Miriam Cohen

When first grade plans a costume party, Anna Maria dresses as a princess, Willy is a clown, and Jim is "the Strongest Man in the World." But when the third-grade bully arrives and tries to ruin the fun, Jim saves the day when he accidentally takes on the bully, proving that he really is a strong man!

Jacob no longer rides on his father’s back. He is now a big brother. He is helping his daddy today, pushing his little sister in a stroller to the park. His little sister is as cute as a button, but my, she is a wild thing! She runs everywhere in the park. Jacob can’t take his eyes off her for a minute, running fast to catch her.

Layla is a shy new girl in first grade and her classmates wonder why she wears a head scarf. As the school day progresses, the first graders learn about Layla''s culture and help make her feel more at ease in her new school. Part of the We Love First Grade!™ series.

Every morning when Mommy goes to work, I kiss her goodbye. Daddy stays home with me, and we do everything together–we do the laundry, we dance, we read, we race to the park. Everything is fun with Daddy. At bedtime Daddy reads to me, and sometimes he falls asleep.

When the lady from the principal''s office brings a test for the first grade class, the children have trouble with the test and feel bad. Fortunately, their teacher explains that a test doesn''t reflect important things like creativity, kindness, and friendship.

The children in the first grade must take a test and they are worried. When the results come back, some children feel bad. Their gentle, understading teacher assures the children that a test doesn''t tell any of the important things about them?if they are creative, kind, or are a good friend.

It''s Valentine''s Day and the first graders are excited about the cards they will receive. Their teacher requests everybody in class to send a Valentine''s card to everybody else so that nobody feels left out. However, in their eagerness to create the best cards the first graders remember to make cards only for their best friends! 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!

This book provides a timely and systematic study of reparations in international criminal justice, going beyond a theoretical analysis of the system established at the International Criminal Court (ICC). It originally engages with recent decisions and filings at the ICC relating to reparation and how the criminal and reparative dimensions of international criminal justice can be reconciled. This book is equally innovative in its extensive treatment of the significant challenges of adjudicating on reparations, and proposing recommendations based on concrete experiences. With recent and imminent decisions from the ICC, and developments in national courts and beyond, Miriam Cohen provides a critical analysis of the theory and emerging jurisprudence of reparations for international crimes, their impact on victims and stakeholders.

In the tradition of Kristen Roupenian, Rebecca Schiff, and Ottessa Moshfegh, a darkly humorous debut collection that follows four girls from childhood to adulthood.

Jacob just turned four and is starting preschool! He is anything but excited. This is the first time he will be away from Daddy and Jacob''s classmates started school months ago. How will he fit in? Luckily, Jacob''s new teacher and classmates show him how easy it can be to make new friends. Miriam Cohen''s bright, expressive art helps breathe life into the characters as this story unfolds. Demonstrating the power of friendship and a willingness to try new things, Jacob''s First Day illustrates how friendships and open-mindedness can make school fun! Every part of Jacob''s journey is sure to comfort children as they prepare for their own exciting school adventures.

Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women''s proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Children''s Bureau, created in 1912 to promote child welfare, she was the first woman to head a United States federal agency. Throughout her life, Lathrop challenged the social norms of the time and became instrumental in shaping Progressive reform. She began her career at Hull House in Chicago, the nation''s most famous social settlement, where she worked to improve public and private welfare for poor people, helped establish America''s first juvenile court, and pushed for immigrant rights. Lathrop was also co-founder of one of America''s first schools of social work. Later in life she became a leader in the League of Women Voters and an advisor on child welfare to the League of Nations. Following Lathrop''s life from her childhood and college education through her social service and government work, this book gives an overview of her enduring contribution to progressive politics, women''s employment, and women''s education. It also offers a look at how one influential woman worked within the bounds of traditional conventions about gender, race, and class, and also pushed against them.

Written by best-selling author Miriam Cohen, A Daughter of Two Mothers is the incredible, true account of a handicapped widow''s forced separation from her infant daughter, the years of longing and searching, the legal battle, and the subsequent destruction brought by the Nazis. Open this book and you will step into the world of a generation gone, of pre- and post-war Hungarian Jewry, as young Leichu moves between two communities and their divergent lifestyles. This is a gripping story of separation and reunion, of pure faith and acceptance of G-d''s will, and of triumph over despair.

An account of the Holocaust experiences of Chanah Kaufman (née Zucker), born in 1929 to an Orthodox Jewish family, related from the viewpoint of the young girl that she was at the time. In Brussels, her parents paid a non-Jew to hide Chanah in her basement. Subsequently she was taken to the Misericorde convent in Leuven, where she and other Jewish girls were hidden throughout the war. The nuns pressured her to convert, convincing her that otherwise the Nazis might kill her along with those who gave her shelter. However, inwardly she always remained Jewish. When the war ended, the nuns did not inform their wards, hoping that the Jewish children they saved would remain Catholics. Chanah was eventually taken to a Jewish orphanage, the Tiefenbrunner Home. Her parents and brother did not survive. She immigrated to Israel after the war. An appendix on pp. 322-344 discusses the role of the general and Jewish undergrounds in Belgium in hiding Jewish children and returning them to their people after the war.

Two little mittens share many experiences until one of them is lost.

The narrator of this story idolizes his older brother. But when big brother leaves for the army, the narrator tries his best to fill big brother''s shoes for his younger brother.

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

Oscar was hot and bored on the subway train. Then he saw the Island Lady with a huge basket. "Want to know what''s inside?" she asked. And out she brought a cool island breeze, the green Caribbean Sea, good things to eat� a calypso man and music and everone joined in the fun.

Backpack Baby is feeling grumpy and begins to cry. But when the little baby begins to cry too, he knows how to make it stop.

A baby riding in a backpack claims ownership of various objects, but is glad to share when Daddy asks for a bite of a pretzel. On board pages.

Backpack Baby has a special secret.

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

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