Barkin, Carol

Discusses the advantages of working and offers tips on assessing your talents and abilities, finding a job, acting responsibly, handling disasters, and setting prices.

Discusses children's relationships with parents, peers, and teachers.

Examines some of the conflicting feelings that can arise in friendships.

Simplified, step-by-step sewing instructions for creating a variety of "make it today, wear tonight" outfits.

Explores the fears and anxieties connected with leaving home and starting school.

Discusses a child's feelings of anxiety and frustration caused by the disruption of a secure teacher-pupil relationship.

Gives instructions for easy ways to remodel clothes, with diagrams and directions for adjusting length, fit, and style, and for transforming problem clothes into usable garments.

Discusses the advantages of working and offers tips on assessing your talents and abilities, finding a job, acting responsibly, handling disasters, and setting prices.

Presents a short history of Valentine's Day and includes recipes for appropriate foods and deserts and instructions for making Valentines and other decorations.

Discusses the significance of Thanksgiving, suggests various projects and activities for celebrating it, and provides recipes for the holiday.