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Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: A Slightly Tarnished Southern Belle's Words of Wisdom
Celia Rivenbark is an intrepid explorer and acid commentator on the land south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In this collection of screamingly funny essays, you'll discover:
*How to get your kid into a character breakfast at Disney World (or run the risk of eating chicken out of a bucket with Sneezy)*Secrets of Celebrity Moms (don't hate them because they're beautiful when there are so many other reasons)
*ebay addiction and why "It ain't worth having if it ain't on ebay"
*Why today's children's clothes make six-year-olds look like Vegas showgirls with an abundance of anger issues
*And so much more! Celia Rivenbark's essays about life in today's South are like caramel popcorn---sweet, salty, and utterly irresistible.
Book Details
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
- Publish Date: Sep 4th, 2007
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780312339944
- Categories: • Form - Essays
About the Author
Rivenbark, Celia: - Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather; and You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house "with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats." She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Praise for this book
"This is a hilarious read, perhaps best enjoyed while eating Krispy Kremes with a few girlfriends." --Publishers Weekly
"She kills in the ''Kids'' and ''Southern-Style Silliness'' sections, putting the fear of Mickey into anyone planning a trip to Disney World." --Entertainment Weekly "Will give you a case of the giggles." --New York Daily News on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "Warm, witty, and wise, rather like reading dispatches from a friend who uses e-mail but still writes letters, in ink, on good paper. " --St. Petersburg Times on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "Even diehard Yankees will appreciate this wickedly funny collection " --Dallas Morning News on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "North Carolina doesn't have a post for a 'humorist laureate, ' but it should invent one and install Celia Rivenbark." --Greensboro News & Record on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "I thought I was Southern until I read Celia Rivenbark's book....What a funny, smart, and irreverent writer she is!" --Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "Laugh-out-loud funny." --Cleveland Plain Dealer on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "A collection of essays by a woman working in her element...Rivenbark writes with that breezy, irreverent allure that makes so many of these belles legendary." --Blue Ridge Business Journal on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "An edgy Erma. An Erma dipped in corn-bread batter, wrapped in collard greens, and drawling that she was speeding because 'my uterus told me to.' " --The Tennessean on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "A hoot and a holler." --Boston Herald on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier "I laughed so hard reading this book, I began snorting in an unbecoming fashion." --Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy on Celia Rivenbark and We're Just Like You, Only Prettier