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And the award for worst dad ever still goes to

The Handbook To Lazy Parenting

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  • Paperback

    204 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2019

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Summary

And the award for worst dad ever still goes to …The Handbook to Lazy Parenting is the bestselling cartoonist Guy Delisle’s final tribute to the frequently hilarious and absurd situations that any parent will find themselves in when raising young children-all told with his trademark sarcastic wit. But even as his children grow older, wiser, and less interested in their father’s antics, Delisle has no shortage of bad-parenting stories, only now, sometimes the joke is on him!From trying to convince Louis to play video games instead of letting him do his homework, to forgetting Alice in a stationery store after buying a pen, to tricking the kids out of dessert to make up for his own blunder, Delisle tells relatable stories of parenthood, the mistakes we have trouble admitting to, and the impulse that we all sometimes have to give a comically serious answer to a child’s comically serious question.With impressive timing and pacing in these lighthearted vignettes, Delisle delivers his gut-wrenchingly funny punch lines in self-deprecating fashion, letting everyone know who is ultimately the butt of the joke. The Handbook to Lazy Parenting will delight parents, of course, but also anyone who has raised or known an inquisitive child and needs some pro tips on being, well, a bad dad!

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781770463646
ISBN-10:177046364X
Author:Guy Delisle
Publisher:Drawn and Quarterly
Imprint:Drawn and Quarterly
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:204
Release Date:8 October 2019
Weight:182g
Dimensions:24mm x 127mm x 180mm
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The Handbook To Lazy Parenting by Guy Delisle - ISBN: 9781770463646
127 × 180 mm
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

Praise for Guy Delisle

“A User’s Guide … shares with [Delisle’s] previous work a keen appreciation for the clash of cultures; this time, however, the cultures in question are those of adults and children.” —NPR

“Even More Bad Parenting Advice … send[s] up Delisle’s inadequacies as a father in a series of beady vignettes.” —The Guardian, Best Graphic Novels of 2014

About The Author

Guy Delisle

Born in Quebec City, Canada, in 1966, Guy Delisle now lives in the south of France with his wife and two children. Delisle spent ten years working in animation, which allowed him to learn about movement and drawing. He is best known for his travelogues about life in faraway countries: Burma Chronicles, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City, Pyongyang, and Shenzhen. He has since expanded his oeuvre by telling a Doctors Without Borders acquaintance’s story as a nail-biting thriller (Hostage) and revisiting his teen years and first summer job (Factory Summers).

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