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A mother’s advice to her daughter–a guide to daily living, both practical and sublime–with full-color illustrations throughout. One sleepless night while she was in her early twenties, illustrator/writer Hallie Bateman had a painful realization: her mom would die, and after she died she would be gone. The prospect was devastating, and also scary-how would she…
A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Parenting Book of Spring 2025 “You can almost see mothers around the world nodding their heads in recognition.” —The Washington Post From Mary Catherine Starr, the artist behind the @momlife_comics Instagram account celebrated by moms all over the world, this deeply funny illustrated memoir captures the chaos, joy, exhaustion, guilt,…
An officially licensed interactive baby book to record your child’s first three years, featuring all your favorite Miffy characters! Celebrate your child’s first three years with this beautiful baby book. A thoughtful journal layout provides space to record important milestones in each month of baby’s first year and guided prompts collect treasured memories through the…
An illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone doing the work of parenting, from the author and the illustrator of Special Topics in Being a Human Being a parent is enormously joyful, but it is also an enormous amount of work. Parenting requires you to make dozens of decisions a…
Born out of a viral “Shouts & Murmurs” piece in The New Yorker, this darkly humorous, charming, and brilliant graphic memoir, in the tradition of Allie Brosh and Roz Chast, brings the first few years of parenthood to life. With the wit of a comedian and the observational skills of a sociologist surveying a new…
Getting old is not for sissies. But as Brian Crane’s crotchety but endearing seniors Earl and Opal Pickles do it, it can be humorous and often touching. For over twenty years, Crane’s comic strip, Pickles, has been delighting readers around the world. This sixth collection continues the adventures of grandparents Earl and Opal; their precocious…
Take one long-married and occasionally exasperated couple getting along in years, their well meaning daughter and precocious grandson, a clueless dog, an independent minded cat, plus assorted other quirky but endearing characters and you have the world of Pickles, Brian Crane’s beloved comic strip that takes a wiry but good-natured look at the foibles of…
“You can lean on my kindness all you like, okay?” Ryo returns to his family home, looking to find a different headspace and concentrate on the upcoming accounting exam, only to instead be greeted by a young girl named Haruka? Amid all the fresh confusion, the exam draws near–and, once again, he finds comfort in…
No parent is ever alone–especially in the bathroom. Perfect for baby showers, tired moms, any dad who’s ever stepped on a LEGO, this laugh-out-loud celebration of chaos, love, and sticky-fingered joy is hilarious, heartfelt, and highly relatable. This collection of delightful observations from award-winning cartoonists and stand-up comedians Scott Dooley and Jason Chatfield will reassure…
“This is a truly beautiful and special book.”–Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet “Searching, honest, funny, and beautiful.” –Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch “I laugh-sobbed my way through The Mother, so loudly my children came to check on me.” –Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother In this hilarious and…
Set in Montréal, Clay Footed Giants is a tragicomic meditation on parenthood, masculinity, and violence. Being a parent is so much harder than Pat ever imagined. While his partner Ester is away on a work trip. Pat loses his temper and transforms into a grizzly bear of a father, scaring his children and compounding his…
In I Don’t Want to Be a Mom, Irene Olmo recounts her coming-of-age transformation from assuming she will one day start a family to realizing that she just doesn’t want to be a mom. With an affecting mix of humor and introspection, she describes the subtle and not-so-subtle ways she was pressured to have children…
In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her struggle with postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet. Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, Dear Scarlet perfectly captures the quiet desperation of those suffering from PPD and the profound feelings of inadequacy and loss….
Six individuals who, under “normal” circumstances would hardly have anything to do with each other, sign up for a course. A course which they all, under “normal” circumstances, would never have considered doing. In part 1 we observe how the group develops during the six week cookery course. They feel for each other, they help…
Tell Me About My Father: Wasyl’s Story (Rocked in the Cradle of Coal series) It is 1917 and the United States is recovering from the costly first World War. Inflation hits hard, especially in the coal regions of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Long work days for low pay provided barely enough to scrape by before, but now…
Un compañero cercano, ingenioso y muy útil para mamás y futuras mamás: 99 IDEAS RÁPIDAS PARA SOBREVIVIR A LA MATERNIDAD. No es un manual seco ni culpabilizador, sino un libro de padres con humor lleno de micro-estrategias que salvan el día: sueño a trozos, café frío, pañales a las 3 de la mañana, biberones con…
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