How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn Before You're Grown Up - Paperback

by Catherine Newman (Author)

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.

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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.

Author Biography

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.