Books with author Rebecca Cook

Some time ago, we said good-bye to Mommy. I am not sure where she has gone.Honest and straightforward, this touching story explores the many emotions a bereaved child may experience, from anger and guilt to sadness and bewilderment. Ultimately, Missing Mommy focuses on the positive―the recognition that the child is not alone but still part of a family that loves and supports him.

Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges, where she shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students' success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.

This new series takes young readers through the exciting and often controversial world of energy. Covering different sources of energy, the eight volumes feature fictional student narrators interviewing experts who discuss the pros and cons of each and the science behind them.Combining fact and balance, Examining Energy provides students with clear picture of a topic on which daily headlines and news stories too often flash more heat than lights.

Imagine growing up the gay daughter of Sigmund Freud, who taught that lesbianism can be a gateway to mental illness. Furthermore, he said that lesbianism is caused by the father and is curable by psychoanalysis. Now imagine that he analyzes you. That’s the premise of award-winning science journalist Rebecca Coffey’s fact-based novel, Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story. The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Roundtable of the American Library Association has named Hysterical a 2015 “Over the Rainbow” book. Booklist called Hysterical “avidly researched, shrewd, and unnerving” as well as “complexly entertaining, sexually dramatic, [and] acidly funny.” LAMBDA Literary said it’s got “a plot so rife with tension it’ll make you squirm.” Oprah’s O Magazine recommended it in its June 2014 issue. Despite any difficulty in her upbringing, Anna Freud grew to be her father’s closest intellectual and emotional companion. After his death, she bore his intellectual seed into the world. Yet as close and loyal as she was to Sigmund, Anna also enjoyed 54 years of happy monogamy with Dorothy Burlingham, heir to the Tiffany fortune. They even raised a family together. Hysterical: Anna Freud’s Story is a fascinating faux autobiography built on a pile of crazy facts.

When a little boy's ball disappears down a mysterious hole in the garden, he can't stop thinking about what could be down there - a little mouse's house? The lair of a hungry troll? Or maybe even a dragon's den. Whatever it may be, he's determined to find out!The Something is a glorious imaginative adventure from Rebecca Cobb, the award-winning creator of Aunt Amelia and Lunchtime, and illustrator of The Paper Dolls, written by Julia Donaldson.

They’re not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. They are first-generation college students—children of immigrants and blue-collar workers—who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But college is expensive, unfamiliar, and intimidating. Inexperienced students expect tough classes and demanding, remote faculty. They may not know what an assignment means, what a score indicates, or that a single grade is not a definitive measure of ability. And they certainly don’t feel entitled to be there. They do not presume success, and if they have a problem, they don’t expect to receive help or even a second chance. Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of interviews and observations at community colleges. She shows how students and their instructors misunderstand and ultimately fail one another, despite good intentions. Most memorably, she describes how easily students can feel defeated—by their real-world responsibilities and by the demands of college—and come to conclude that they just don’t belong there after all. Eye-opening even for experienced faculty and administrators, The College Fear Factor reveals how the traditional college culture can actually pose obstacles to students’ success, and suggests strategies for effectively explaining academic expectations.

A sweet and funny story from critically acclaimed author-illustrator Rebecca Cobb, illustrator of The Paper Dolls and The Everywhere Bear. It's lunchtime for one little girl, but she's just not really hungry. A visiting crocodile, bear and wolf, however, are starving. It's just as well that children taste revolting!With simple, child-friendly text full of wit and humour, and bright, detailed illustrations, this is a wonderful addition to any preschool child's bookshelf. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, Lunchtime is a beautifully illustrated tale of food, friendship and fun.Also available from Rebecca Cobb: Aunt Amelia, The Something and Hello Friend!

A beautifully illustrated, wittily observed picture book from the award-winning Rebecca Cobb. Hello Friend! tells the story of one relentlessly big-hearted and enthusiastic little girl who is insistent on befriending a certain little boy. And why wouldn't he want to be friends with her? She's very good at sharing - in fact, she insists on it, even if it's a sandwich that he doesn't like. And she's certain that being outside is their favourite thing to do, however reluctant he looks. But while he doesn't seem keen on many of the things that she loves to do, first impressions can be deceptive, and there is one thing he's very keen on after all . . . being friends. Also available from Rebecca Cobb: Lunchtime, Aunt Amelia and The Something.

A brilliantly fun story about a rather unusual babysitter from Rebecca Cobb, the award-winning illustrator of The Paper Dolls and The Everywhere Bear.When Mum and Dad go away for the night, Aunt Amelia comes to look after one very cross little girl and boy. They do not want to be looked after and, even worse, Mum and Dad have left a list of boring instructions. But Aunt Amelia turns out to be rather different from expected . . . and a lot more fun!Gorgeous illustrations accompany the sweet and funny text in Aunt Amelia – every child (and adult) will wish for an aunt like Amelia!Also available from Rebecca Cobb: Lunchtime, The Something and Hello Friend!

Young Anna Freud is sexually attracted to other girls. Unfortunately, in the early 20th century, lesbianism is still widely considered to be a symptom of “hysteria,” a psychological disorder marked by paralysis and other extreme symptoms.Anna’s father, Sigmund Freud, has long believed that fathers are at fault for any daughter’s lesbianism. But he also takes pride in being the world’s leading expert on hysteria, so he can’t ignore what he believes to be the screamingly crazy roots of Anna’s “disorder.” Unfortunately for Anna (and women everywhere), Sigmund believes that any and all hysteria is caused when a woman’s innate and unconscious desire to be sexually violated goes unmet.Worried about her lack of male suitors, Sigmund psychoanalyzes Anna to ready her for a womanly life. In analysis, Anna tries hard to accept her father’s ideas. But when she meets Dorothy Burlingham, heir to the Tiffany fortune, she can’t help but fall in love. The novel HYSTERICAL is Anna’s fact-based, full-life story of father-daughter conflict, sexual coming of age, and life with Dorothy.Author Rebecca Coffey is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and radio commentator. Also a humorist, she is the author of Nietzsche's Angel Food Cake: And Other “Recipes” for the Intellectually Famished (Beck & Branch, 2013) and Science and Lust(Beck & Branch, 2018).

Winner of the 2016 eLit Book Award Silver Medal for Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction, Pinnacle Achievement Award for Juvenile Fiction, and Readers Favorite Honorable Mention for Children's Sci-Fi, Fantasy!Onion Weed, Tennessee, population 839—or more if you count the bigfoots living in the woods, and all of the bigfoot hunters that have invaded the town searching for the creatures. J.T. Meeks is a shy 12-year-old kid who has always been interested in finding a bigfoot. When he gets mixed up with Billy Matrix, the self-proclaimed authority on the "North American Bipedal Great Ape", things get interesting—and dangerous. How will J.T. find his place in this world of bigfoot hunting—a world filled with telepathic psychics, vicious hunters, know-it-all anthropologists, spiritual hippie surfers, and self-promoting media personalities. J.T. soon discovers that there is more to the bigfoot legend than meets the eye, as he uncovers his true destiny and learns much about himself in the process.

A glorious imaginative adventure from Rebecca Cobb, the award-winning illustrator of The Paper Dolls and The Everywhere Bear.Underneath the cherry tree in our garden there is a little hole. I'm sure there is something down there . . . When a little boy's ball disappears down a mysterious hole in the garden, he can't stop thinking about what could be down there. Could it be a little mouse's house? The lair of a hungry troll? Or maybe even a dragon's den? Whatever the something is, he is determined to find out!The Something is a gorgeous, original story full of warmth and the wonder of childhood from Rebecca Cobb, the award-winning creator of Lunchtime and Aunt Amelia. Also available from Rebecca Cobb: Lunchtime, Aunt Amelia and Hello Friend!