Desperate Households: A Stone Soup Collection [Paperback]

Jan Eliot (Author)

Book Description

Series: Stone Soup | Publication Date: April 1, 2007

Capturing the riotous and exhausting life of working mom Val Stone and her extended blended family . . . Jan Eliot has created a classic family story for our times. --New York Newsday

* Jan Eliot manages to find the humor in working parent hassles, the terrible twos, middle-school angst, love, and the life of the single mom in this collection. The all-too-real humor of Stone Soup is very wise and very funny.

Distributed to more than 150 newspapers in six countries with over eight million loyal fans, Stone Soup is a funny, irreverent, sympathetic comic strip that mirrors today's complicated family life . . . while cheering us on.

* Jan Eliot's Stone Soup follows the riotous and exhausting life of working mom Val, her daughters Holly and Alix, and her often too-close-for-comfort extended blended family . . . conveniently living right next door.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (April 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740764292
• ISBN-13: 978-0740764295
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,224,732 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For Jan Eliot, cartooning started out as therapy and evolved into a career. She drew her first cartoons while juggling single parenthood and a full-time job. Working at night after the kids went to bed, she eventually launched the comic strip Stone Soup, which is loosely based on her family, friends and unsuspecting strangers at the mall. Stone Soup has been syndicated by Universal UClick for 16 years and appears daily in over 250 newspapers. There are currently nine book collections of her comic strip available, with two new books released in 2011--"We'll Be REally Careful" and "Brace Yourself".

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Parents of Teens - this may help save your sanity, June 2, 2007

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Laura Lynn Walsh "gt-teacher" (Fairbanks, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Desperate Households: A Stone Soup Collection (Paperback)

I enjoy this comic strip a lot. This particular book is especially good for parents of young teen girls. And we all know what they are like.