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

A practical and lighthearted guide to essential life skills combines irreverent text with graphic-novel artwork to share advice on everything from housework and pet care to sticking up for others and writing thank-you notes. 20,000 first printing. Original. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
"Catherine Newman has written the ultimate guidebook for kids, jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills to become a more dependable person"--
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, humorous writer and etiquette columnist Catherine Newman has created the ultimate guidebook to becoming a person whom everyone will like being around more. 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 free themselves from parental nagging and become more dependable &; and they&;ll like themselves better, too! They&;ll learn how to deal with dirty rooms, care for pets and cactuses, stick up for somebody, and fold a T-shirt. They&;ll even get a crash course on 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 valued and valuable member of the grown-up world.
This humorous and entirely practical how-to book for kids aged 10 and up passes along essential life skills with an irreverent voice and graphic novel&;style illustrations. From how to write a thank-you note to how to make a simple meal, this valuable advice, written with wit and wisdom, will help every kid taking the first steps into adulthood.