Barbara Cohen Books In Order

R, My Name Is Rosie Books In Order

R, My Name Is Rosie (1978)
The Innkeeper’s Daughter (1979)

Sally and Emily Berg Books In Order

The Christmas Revolution (1987)
The Orphan Game (1988)
The Long Way Home (1990)

Novels

Thank You, Jackie Robinson (1974)
Bitter Herbs and Honey (1976)
Where’s Florrie? (1976)
Benny (1977)
The Binding of Isaac (1978)
Unicorns in the Rain (1980)
Fat Jack (1980)
Queen for a Day (1981)
King of the Seventh Grade (1982)
Seven Daughters and Seven Sons (1982)
Gooseberries to Oranges (1982)
Lovers’ Games (1983)
Roses (1984)
Coasting (1985)
People Like Us (1987)
Tell Us Your Secret (1989)
213 Valentines (1991)
Make a Wish, Molly (1993)
The Chocolate Wolf (1996)
First Fast (1998)

Collections

Canterbury Tales (1988)

Picture Books

The Carp in the Bathtub (1972)
Here Come the Purim Players! (1977)
Lovely Vassilisa (1980)
Yussel’s Prayer (1981)
The Demon Who Would Not Die (1982)
Molly’s Pilgrim (1983)
The Secret Grove (1985)
Robin Hood and Little John (1995)

Non fiction

I Am Joseph (1980)
The Donkey’s Story (1988)
David (1995)

R, My Name Is Rosie Book Covers

Sally and Emily Berg Book Covers

Novels Book Covers

Collections Book Covers

Canterbury Tales
(1988)

Picture Books Book Covers

Non fiction Book Covers

Barbara Cohen Books Overview

The Innkeeper’s Daughter

Helping her widowed mother run a small inn provides 16 year old Rachel with many opportunities to adjust to growing up.

After Sam’s father died, he became so wrapped up in the Brooklyn Dodgers that he could describe every game they’d played in the past four years. Nobody was very interested, until Sam met Davy. They came from different races, religions, and generations. But it didn’t take long before they had a friendship that went well beyond baseball.

Bitter Herbs and Honey

During the early 1900’s, a young Jewish girl’s loyality to family tradition conflicts with her desire to go to college.

Unicorns in the Rain

An invitation from a stranger on a train takes Nikki to unicorns and the boarding of an ark.

Seven Daughters and Seven Sons

In an ancient Arab nation, one woman dares to be different. Buran cannot Buran will not sit quietly at home and wait to be married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune, she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There, she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city’s crown prince comes often to her shop, and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman, she will lose everything she has worked for.

Tell Us Your Secret

A group of aspiring teenage authors attend a two week writers conference where they not only learn about each other but begin to reveal their secret selves.

213 Valentines

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Wade has trouble adjusting when he is transferred to a special fourth grade class for the gifted and talented, so he plans to send himself 213 Valentines signed by celebrities.

Make a Wish, Molly

Excited by the first American birthday party she has ever attended, Russian born Molly is tempted to eat the pink and white birthday cake of her hostess despite the Passover rule that prevents her from doing so. K.

Canterbury Tales

This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. It is not confined to any single literary tradition or genre, and will cumulatively form a substantial library of textbooks on some of the most important and widely read literary masterpieces. Each book is devoted to a single work and provides a close reading of that text, as well as a full account of its historical, cultural, and intellectual background, a discussion of its influence, and a guide to further reading. The contributors to the series give full consideration to the linguistic issues raised by each text, and, within the overall framework of the series, are given complete freedom in the choice of their critical method. Where the text is written in a language other than English, full account is taken of readers studying the text in English translation. While critical jargon is avoided, important technical terminology is fully explained and thus this series will be genuinely accessible to students at all levels and to general readers.

The Carp in the Bathtub

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Two children try to rescue the carp their mother plans to make into gefilte fish for the Seder.

Here Come the Purim Players!

Renowned author Barbara Cohen tells the tale of Purim through the words of Reb Zalman and Reb Yisroel of Prague in this beautifully illustrated storybook.

Molly’s Pilgrim

Molly and her family have moved to America from Russia. Her mother says they moved to find freedom. But the children in Molly’s third grade class make fun of her accent and clothes. That doesn’t seem like freedom to Molly at all. At Thanksgiving everyone has to bring a Pilgrim doll to class. The doll Molly’s mother makes looks like a Russian peasant girl. It doesn’t look at all like the Pilgrims Molly has seen in her schoolbook. Molly is afraid she’ll never fit in with her classmates now.

David

Well known and respected children’s author Barbara Cohen has written a compelling biography of David, from his slaying of Goliath through his persecution by King Saul and his ascension to the throne of a newly united Israel. Recasting the biblical narrative in modern language, Ms. Cohen creates a multifaceted, colorful, and very human figure David the soldier, politician, administrator, lover, father, poet, and religious leader. Her carefully researched account draws on today’s knowledge of archaeology, history, politics, and psychology, and discusses David‘s continuing influence on Judeo Christian religious beliefs and on the folklore of many peoples.