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The Granny Diaries

An Insider's Guide for New Grandmothers By Adair Lara
Illustrations by Patricia Storms

4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in; 120 pp ; 25 2-color illustrations
Hardcover
Published in December, 2007
ISBN 0811857328
ISBN13 9780811857321

$12.95  

The Granny Diaries -- This delightful guide gives new grandmas clear direction on how to navigate foreign territory. Celebrated columnist Adair Lara advises on how to choose a decent name (Oopsie? Boopsie?). She outlines how to give advice without getting a Dr. Sears guide chucked at the head. She offers wise counsel on how to stay on the parents' good side (hint: don't say anything, ever). Hilarious in its blunt truisms, The Granny Diaries steers around the shoals of grandma sentimentality. And yet, having fallen madly in love with her own grandchildren, Adair affirms that the years after the big G truly are golden.

Adair Lara was an award-winning columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle for 12 years, and is the author of several books. She lives three blocks from her grandchildren in San Francisco.

Patricia Storms is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist in Toronto.