Nelson in Love: An Adam Joshua Valentine's Day Story

by Janice Lee Smith and Laura Godwin

Valentine's Day is coming and Adam Joshua's class is busy signing cards, getting heart tattoos, and making special gifts. But Adam Joshua has a problem--a secret admirer on a Valentine's Day campaign to win Adam Joshua's heart. Black-and-white illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060202920
• ISBN13: 9780060202927
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3

Customer Reviews

Fantastic book

I should admit at the start that my mother wrote this book, and that I am biased toward her work. This is the seventh book in the Adam Joshua series, and one of my favorites. This book, and the series, details the life of my sister and I, plus a variety of other characters. Despite the book being named "Nelson in Love," (Nelson is actually Scott, my best friend for the past 13 years) the book is actually about my first true love. At the time Mom was writing the book, I thought it was romantic that my love was being immortalized in print. After all the years of suffering through her publicizing my periods of thinking I was Superman and running around in a cape, and my fear of monsters, and even my fights with my sister, I was finally reaping the rewards. That lasted right up until the moment we broke up. By then the book was already at press, and it was too late to change the girl's name. Some day my children (her grandchildren) will ask who Heidi was. My mother's personal dedica