Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama's return home after work.

Fiction. Five stories--several as long as novellas--introduce the world to Jen George, a writer whose furiously imaginative new voice calls to mind Donald Barthelme and Leonora Carrington no less than Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. In "Guidance/The Party," an ethereal alcoholic "Guide" in robes and flowing hair appears to help a thirty-three-year-old woman prepare a party for her belated adulthood; "Take Care of Me Forever" tragically lambastes the...

Mothers and fathers participating in everyday activities show their love for their children in very similar ways.

Illustrations and simple, rhyming text challenge the idea that boys and girls should each wear only certain colors or play with certain toys, and encourages them to be true to themselves.

Corinne and her friends, even though they cannot be Musketteers, protect Prince Louis of France.

Explores the concept of dressing "like a girl," in which girls dress in space suits, police officer uniforms, and laboratory coats to prove that girls can be anything they want to be.

After listing activities that are stereotypically, but not always, attributed to princesses, fairies, pirates, superheroes, and more, encourages the reader to imagine what one could be, despite others' expectations. Includes note to parents.

"Adriana, Jimena y Martina tienen grandes sueños, pero la banda de Don Noloconseguirás les ha llenado los bolsillos de piedras para que no puedan volar ..."--Amazon.com. "Adriana, Jimena, and Martina have big dreams, but Mr. Nevergonnagetit has filled their pockets with rocks so they cannot fly ..."--Amazon.com.

For more than a year and a half Vincent ventured into the world as Ned, with an ever-present five o'clock shadow and a crew cut--a perfect disguise that enabled her to observe the world of men as an insider. With her buddies on the bowling league she enjoyed the rough and rewarding embrace of male camaraderie; a stint in a high-octane sales job taught her the gut-wrenching pressures endured by men who would do anything to succeed; she frequented sex...