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    My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
    My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
    My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
    Ebook35 pages6 minutes

    My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life

    By Kate Feiffer and Diane Goode

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    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?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
    Release dateMar 24, 2009
    ISBN9781439158432
    My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life
    Author

    Kate Feiffer

    Kate Feiffer, a former television news producer, is an illustrator, and author of eleven highly acclaimed books for children, including Henry the Dog with No Tail and My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life. Morning Pages is her first novel for adults. Kate currently divides her time between Martha’s Vineyard, where she raised her daughter Maddy, and New York City, where she grew up.

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    4.5/5

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    • 4/5
      nice! but for the title though... still love it so ???
    • 5/5
      I like how the illustrator created the images. I like how the main character told the story.
    • 5/5
      The way she realized that she needs her parents .
    • 4/5
      Awwwwwwwwnnn ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
    • 5/5
      Lovely! I love this story! It makes me think my mom.
    • 5/5
      i d rtyuio yuo[]wq.The girl was so happy to seeher family and say 'i love you'
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    • 1/5
      What?-this is evil, your mom is an angel like really.
    • 3/5
      Cute read for children. Short easy read for kids. Read more of theses books
    • 5/5
      it was very sweat nice and i really liked this story
    • 5/5
      My daughter loved this book because it surprised her in a good way.
    • 5/5
      i loved how the author wrote all of the reasons and i like how the illistraitor drew all the pictures
    • 5/5
      I like the 5 ways mom is ruaning
    • 5/5
      thats sad that she pictured her mom and dad in jail!!!!! but i love the end I love you i love my parents they don't ruin your life they make it better. LOVE AWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • 5/5
      this was a great book i would recomend and i am also very good at spelin
    • 4/5
      Boo ? it has a good beginning but bad ending i think she could have read instructions on food packets and got glasses of water herself and read a story herself good solid plan tho definitely will try it :)
    • 5/5
      love to read this book again and again :) :)

      1 person found this helpful

    • 3/5
      The young girl-narrator of this amusing picture-book freely admits that her mother has many nice qualities, and does many nice things, but she maintains nevertheless that her mom is ruining her life. Listing the five ways this ruination is occurring, the girl imagines how she might escape, and how her mother might end up in jail for her "crimes." The same process is chronicled with her father, who is also ruining her life. But then the girl begins to imagine what life would be like without those pesky parents, and she soon comes to the inevitable conclusion: she loves them, and is happy to have them around...A sweet, ultimately heartwarming little tale about an imaginative young girl and her parents, My Mom Is Trying to Ruin My Life taps into two common enough childhood experiences: finding parents embarrassing, and chaffing at the restrictions they impose. The amusing, over-the-top scenarios the little girl imagines in the story will keep young listeners entertained, while the accompanying watercolor artwork by Diane Goode, who also illustrated Kate Feiffer's President Pennybaker, accentuates the humor of the text. I enjoyed this one quite a bit, more than I thought I would, picking it up. Something about the cover led me to expect another spoiled little girl story (something akin to Louise the Big Cheese, or Eloise), but our narrator here is just an ordinary girl with a good heart. Recommended to anyone looking for fun picture-books about the parent-child bond, and the ways that children simultaneously rely upon and sometimes wish to escape their mothers and fathers.

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    • 5/5
      The best part was when she said "I love you" to Mom and Dad. And the picture of the Mom and Dad in jail. And the picture of her standing on the floor with a mess and she was screaming because she missed her Mom and Dad." - Y, age 4 and AB age 6

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    • 5/5
      Very befitting for my own children. Enjoyable for both parents and children alike. A story for easy laughs.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      it teaches you a lot of good and bad stuff. your parents think it's a poo poo book.
    • 5/5
      This was a cute book. Helped us talk to our daughter so that she knows we aren't really trying to ruin her life.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It was hilarious. The little girl thinks her mom and dad are trying to ruin her life!???

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Emma feels that her mother is trying to ruin her life because of all the "embarrassing" and "mean" things that she does such as kissing her cheek, worrying all the time, and making her do homework or clean. But eventually she realizes she needs her parents and without them she would be lost.Recommended Age: PreK
    • 5/5
      A humorous story about a young girl realizing she needs her parents in her life more than she thought. Every child can relate to this story.
    • 4/5
      My mom is trying to ruin my life is a cute book about a girl who thinks her mom is always getting in the way of her life. When in reality her mom is only doing her job and trying to raise her. At the end, the main character learns a valuble lesson that her mom and dad love her and she is very lucky.
    • 2/5
      Might be a good mentor text. Read aloud, discussion, idea stimulator
    • 3/5
      A little girl describes the ways her mom (and sometimes her dad) are ruining her life by exaggerating the situations. She imagines what it would be like if she did not have her parents around restricting her activities, telling her to do her homework, and just plain embarrassing her; however, the little girl realizes it would be worse without her parents than with. The author uses humor to bring out her storyline and pastel colors to keep things light. Light pink and green colors are predominately used as well. The intended audience ranges from ages 5-8, but the plot seems like a teenage issue that has simplified and brought down to a child’s level. Overall, a recommended picture book.
    • 2/5
      This nicely colored easy reader helps explain how one little girl's embarrassing parents are better than no parents at all. This book might give selfish, bratty children new perspective on their parents, though the age of the child is rather ambiguous. Written in a child's train of thought, the little girl talks her way in a circle from negatives to positives. This book could add to a public or school library collection in an affluent area.

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