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 Real-life Stories of Those Fickle, Irrational, Urgent, Tiny People We Love Edited by Jennifer Margulis |
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 Why Babies Do
That (Willow Creek Press)Jennifer Margulis, writer
 Toddler
mentioned in Brain, Child
magazineReviews: Read about Toddler on ParentCenter.com's "Bringing up Ben and Birdy" Read an Interview with Jennifer Margulis in Literary Mama: a magazine for the maternally inclined
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  The
first and only collection of first-person stories of its kind, Toddler
is a heartwarming, sometimes shocking, book of real-life stories about
parenting toddlers, complete with all the dirty diapers, shouting,
cuddling,
and wonder that comes along with the life-long task of caring for
children.
Toddler includes original stories from well-known writers like Hope Edelman, Paul Kivel, Joyce Maynard, Louise Erdrich, NPR commentator Meredith Small and others, as well as stories from emerging talents. In it is the first prose piece by New Yorker poet and co-founder of Poetry in Motion, Elise Paschen, and original pieces by internationally known young adult writers Gordon Korman and Marie Myung-Ok Lee. Unlike most parenting books, it also gives voice to fathers--both stay-at-home dads and working men--who delight in their small children. Clever, succinct, and poignant tales for parents and other adults whose lives are enriched and riled by toddlers, these stories describe the joy a father feels when his daughter looks at him and exclaims "dada!" (and the disappointment that follows when she addresses her sippy cup by the same name), and the frustration a mother--who is also a doctor--feels when the potty-training advice she routinely gives to worried parents fails miserably with her own triplets. Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., author
of The Dance of Anger
and The
Mother Dance calls Toddler a "delightful, searingly honest,
hilarious, sad and moving book that captures the whole rollercoaster of
emotions that come with the territory of rearing a toddler."
About the Editor
Jennifer
Margulis has
eaten fried
crickets in Niger, appeared live on prime-time TV in France, and
performed
the can-can in America. A freelance writer, writing consultant,
and
photojournalist, she is also the mother of three small children. Toddler is her second
book. Read
more about
the
editor. Read an Excerpt
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