ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER!
For the kid who leaves a wet towel wadded up on the floor or forgets to put a new roll on the toilet-paper thingy, witty parenting writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman provides the ultimate guidebook of essential life skills for kids.Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills—all illustrated in an irresistible graphic novel–style—this book shows kids just how easy it is to become more dependable—and like themselves better, too! They’ll learn how to clean dirty rooms, care for pets and cactuses, stick up for somebody, and fold a T-shirt.
They’ll even get a crash course in using the kitchen (including how to turn a 33-cent package of ramen into dinner) and a boot camp for lending a hand outside the house (mowing, shoveling, and fixing something loose has never been easier).
This handbook to becoming beyond helpful promises that every kid can be a valuable member of the grown-up world.
Catherine Newmanis the author of the
New York Timesbestsellers
What Can I Say?and
How to Be a Person,as well as the
New York Timesbestselling novels
Sandwichand
Wreck,
We All Want Impossible Things, two parenting memoirs:
Waiting for Birdyand
Catastrophic Happiness, and a middle-grade novel,
One Mixed-Up Night. She's also the co-author of
Stitch Camp. Newman was the etiquette columnist for
Real Simplemagazine and the editor of the James Beard Award–winning kids’ cooking magazine
ChopChop.A regular contributor to publications including the
New York Times,
Cup of Jo,and
Grown & Flown,Newman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family. Visit her at
catherinenewmanwriter.com and on her Substack,
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