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Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books, March 2009
Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1416941002
ISBN-13: 9781416941002
Grades: P - 3
Description
Everyone has only nice things to say about my mom.
Everyone likes her.
She looks nice.
She bakes great cookies and makes me feel better when I have a bad day.
But would a really nice mom do embarrassing things like kiss me in public and tell loud jokes that no one thinks are funny? Well, my mom does those terrible things and worse - that's why I am sure that I have the most embarrassing mom in the world and that my mom is trying to ruin my life...
Or is she?
How did you come to write this book?
I got the idea for My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life after stopping by my daughter’s school on an unexpectedly warm day, the kind of day that starts with a chill but turns into a scorcher. I walked into the cafeteria where Maddy was eating lunch with her friends. I held up her favorite pink shorts and said, “I thought you might be hot, so I brought you these.” Maddy responded by giving me the look. I’m sure many parents are familiar with the look. It’s the “what are you doing to me” look. It’s the “I can’t believe you’re embarrassing me like this” look. She said, “I’m okay. I don’t need the shorts.” But her look said, “Mom, tell me you’re not really standing there in front of my friends holding up a pair of pink shorts.” I took the shorts home, sat down at my computer and started writing a story about a well-intentioned mother who is a terrible embarrassment to her daughter.
The Martha's Vineyard Times, March 10, 2009
...'The Problem with the Puddles,' by Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Tricia Tusa. Simon & Schuster/Weissman, February 2009, 195 pages, $16.99 'My Mom is Trying to Ruin My Life,' by Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Diane Goode, Simon ...
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