Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family Paperback - 2005
by Catherine Newman
The beloved author of the "Bringing Up Ben & Birdy" column on babycenter.com offers this delightfully candid, outlandishly funny chronicle of the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler.
Summary
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of “Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,” a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the realities of raising a toddler. As she navigates life with her existentially curious and heartbreakingly sweet three-year-old, and her doozy of a pregnancy, she lends her irresistibly unique voice to the secret thoughts and fears of parents everywhere. Filled with quirky warmth and razor-sharp wit, Waiting for Birdy captures the universal wonder, terror, humor, and tenderness of raising a family.
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First line
Last weekend, we took Ben, our two-and-a-half-year-old, out to eat at a country inn.
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- Title Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
- Author Catherine Newman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Pages 261
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date March 29, 2005
- ISBN 9780143034773 / 0143034774
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.18 x 0.49 in (19.66 x 13.16 x 1.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Child rearing, Mothers
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004053401
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Catherine Newman's new book about the rock and roll life of newborn parents is hysterical... Don't give birth without it." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Baby Bat's Lullaby
Citations
- Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 49
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2005, Page 279
- Library Journal, 02/15/2005, Page 148
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