How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up
How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up
Review Quotes: "Catherine Newman has created a starting place for loving, productive conversations about independence, competence, and kindness."-- Jessica Lahey, best-selling author of The Gift of Failure "Kids will delight...
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Review Quotes: Jacket Description/Back: The Stuff You Need to Know to Land on Your Feet Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills from best-selling author and advice columnist Catherine Newman, you'll learn how to manage whatever life throws your way. Your newfound independence is sure to make you - and the people around you - very happy. Table of Contents: Becoming Your Best Self Other Beings: How to Care for the People, Pets, and Plants in Your Life Saying It Right: How to Be Kind and Get Your Point Across Dirty Things: How to Clean and Care for Your Home Edible Food: How to Make Meals and Find Your Way around the Kitchen You're Wearing That?: How to Clean and Care for Your Clothes Your Two Cents: How to Get, Give, and Spend Money Useful Skills: How to Do Basic Important Things Thank You Brief Description: "Catherine Newman has written the ultimate guidebook for kids, jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills to become a more dependable person"-- Biographical Note: Catherine Newman is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What Can I Say? and How to Be a Person, as well as the New York Times bestselling novels Sandwich and Wreck, We All Want Impossible Things, two parenting memoirs: Waiting for Birdy and 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 Simple magazine 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, Crone Sandwich. Publisher Marketing: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! 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. Review Citations:
Contributor Bio:Newman, Catherine |
Author: Newman, Catherine
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2020-05-26
BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction / Maturing|Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance|Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Manners & Etiquette|Juvenile Nonfiction / Inspirational & Personal Growth
Subjects: Self-presentation|Self-actualization (Psychology)
Weight: 0.75 lbs
ISBN: 9781635861822
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781635861822
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