Keep Calm for Ladies
Good Advice for Hard Times
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Publisher Description
Well, it just gets worse and worse doesn't it? Collapsing banks, collapsing countries, massive government cuts, rising debt, inflation and the possibility of a double dip. It's amid all this uncertainty that the already embattled modern woman needs the best advice she can get about how to be as cool and calm in life as possible.
Keep Calm for Ladies offers the same pearls of life wisdom, inspirational quotes, proverbs and mantras as Keep Calm and Carry On but with women at their wits' end in mind. An emergency pocket survival bible for today's plucky female.
'Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got' Janis Joplin
'A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman' Marlene Dietrich
'Remember, blood is not only much thicker than water, it's much more difficult to get out of the carpet' Phyllis Diller
'In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman' Margaret Thatcher
'Never eat more than you can lift' Miss Piggy
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Lovers of the time-honored picture book genre in which an inanimate object (plush rabbit, tin soldier, etc.) comes to life and finds or fails to find a home may warm to this offering, which adds little to the standard formula. A chocolate wolf escapes from a candy store, where no one wanted him anyway, only to encounter many hazards in the outside world-hungry people, heating vents, a family of rats. Though hungry, the rats invite the wolf along to listen under a porch to a boy's bedtime story before they make a meal of him. The boy's dog rescues the wolf from the rats, and the boy takes him from the dog on the very last page: " `A wolf!' he exclaimed. `Are you going to eat me up, Wolf?' `No,' said the wolf. `Are you going to eat me up, Boy?' `No,' said the boy." And after this promise of mutual non-consumption, the wolf sits happily on the boy's dresser "for a long, long time." Ray, who also illustrated Cohen's posthumously published Robin Hood and Little John, enlivens the volume somewhat with the varied angles of his compositions. Curb-level perspectives and huge open mouths show the world from the chocolate wolf's point of view, and the wolf himself has an appealing forlorn dogginess while looking lupine and chocolatey. But given the lackluster ending, readers are unlikely to clamor for many bedtime readings, on or off the porch. Ages 4-8.
