My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life (Hardcover)
by Kate Feiffer and Diane Goode
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Overview
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"?
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- ISBN-13: 9781416941002
- ISBN-10: 1416941002
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Date: March 2009
- Page Count: 32
- Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Customer Reviews
BookPage™ Reviews
Dear ol' Mom
Kate Feiffer and Diane Goode team up in a decidedly less sweet, but still pleasing book about motherly (and fatherly) behavior in My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life. Elementary school children will certainly identify with the embarrassing things her mother does to make her life miserable: Kissing her in public. Delivering clothes to her classroom. Talking loudly. Banning junk food. Worrying. This mother is guilty of all of them. The little girl imagines a scheme where her parents ultimately end up in jail because they are ruining her life. Goode's comedic illustrations are the perfect foil for this over-the-top fantasy. The expressions on the little girl's face tell the whole story of embarrassment and eventually, love and appreciation.
- ISBN-13: 9781416941002
- ISBN-10: 1416941002
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Date: March 2009
- Page Count: 32
- Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publishers Weekly® Reviews
- Reviewed in: Publishers Weekly, page 45.
- Review Date: 2008-12-01
- Reviewer: Staff
What if Mom and Dad were finally jailed for their crimes against their school-age daughter’s humanity (e.g., talking too loudly and enforcing a regular bedtime)? How perfect would that be? The sweetness of our narrator’s vision fades, however, when she realizes there would be no one around to love her and take care of her. Feiffer and Goode (previously paired for President Pennybaker) give this old chestnut of a story line an urbane sheen. The author understands that children like to assume a voice of objective authority by referring to themselves in the third-person plural (“[My mom] makes people’s boo-boos stop hurting”). And while it seems a bit anachronistic that Goode dresses Mom in a pink shirtwaist worthy of Father Knows Best, her watercolor vignettes are gems of wry intelligence and comic understatement. Ages 4–8. (Mar.)
- ISBN-13: 9781416941002
- ISBN-10: 1416941002
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Date: March 2009
- Page Count: 32
- Reading Level: Ages 4-8