Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper! [Hardcover]

Katharine DeBrecht (Author), Jim Hummel (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up | Series: Help! Mom!

Janie and Sam were happy just being kids -- that is, until celebrities started popping out of their hamper to tell them how to behave and to sell them expensive clothes. With Hollywood and its friends in the liberal media declaring war on traditional values, what's a concerned parent to do? It's "Help! Mom!" to the rescue! This hilarious sequel to "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" reunites gifted storyteller Katharine DeBrecht with award-winning illustrator Jim Hummel for another small lesson in conservatism.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Liberals, your days of pumping left-wing books into our kids' classrooms and libraries unchallenged are over -- "Help! Mom!" is back. And this time, she's putting your know-it-all Hollywood friends in their place!

This sequel to the 2005 best-seller "Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" is not only the perfect book for parents who want to teach their kids about traditional values, it's also a humorous read for adults. (Or at least the 99% of adults who couldn't care less about gay cowboy movies or Barbra Streisand's blog.)

The dimmest bulbs of Tinseltown -- Daisy Smears, Rayonna, Barbara Buttersand, Sean Penny, Oh! Prah, Ben Aflac, Larry Queen, Whoopie, and "Toenailology" Tom -- are all here in this hilarious full-color book. And, along with their media friends Katie Curtain, Michael Maroon, and unemployed Dan, they've never been funnier!

Of course, no "Help! Mom!" book would be complete without a pants-suit clad Hillary stirring up trouble. This time she joins her Hollywood pals to tell children what to do and decide what’s best for families.

In this age of celebrity worship, this book is a must for every kid who needs to learn that sometimes celebrities don't know best. Find out for yourself why Rush Limbaugh proclaimed, "Our hats are off to Katharine DeBrecht, author of 'Help! Mom!'" Order a copy of this educational and entertaining book today.

About the Author

Katharine DeBrecht is an author of conservative children's books and a mother of three. Her first book Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! was profiled by the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and other publications. A graduate of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, DeBrecht served as co-captain of "Security Moms for Bush" for South Carolina, where she resides with her husband and children.

Jim Hummel is a professional illustrator and instructor at San Jose State University. A military veteran and former art director for the Associated Press, he is a winner of the prestigious Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Hardcover: 56 pages
• Publisher: Kids Ahead; 1ST edition (March 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976726912
• ISBN-13: 978-0976726913
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #542,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Illustrations are rather fun but the story dissapointed me., March 14, 2006

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This review is from: Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper! (Hardcover)

I appreciate what the author is trying to accomplish, and I can't say I know how I would relate the evils of Hollywood's values, or lack thereof, to children between four and eight years old.

That said, I found the story disappointing because it consumed page after page but didn't really go anywhere. One parody of a celebrity after another appears in a child's bedroom closet and talks children into buying ridiculous clothing items for large amounts of money. The children find out at the end that they have a lot of ridiculous clothing, no money, no more babysitting job, and thus they can't buy what they really wanted to buy in the first place.

It's a narrow, repetitive story with an anticlimactic ending. I guess I just expected more since I own the first book in this "Help, Mom.." series and it seemed to deal with liberals in a much broader, though stereotypical, way than this book dealt with Hollywood.

6 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The irony!!!, January 6, 2008

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John Cotton (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper! (Hardcover)

First off Im a liberal, lets get that out of the way.

Second off I got this book not for my conservative relatives or anything like that, this was a straight up gag gift. The fact that anyone would seriously read this to a child is screwed up in the head.

As a gag gift its great. It makes a good head turner whenever people see it, not to mention a good conversation starter.

The people who wrote this along with those that take this seriously are just as bad as creationists (well, their probably one in the same).

42 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You've Got To Be Carefully Taught, March 15, 2006

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TipONeill (Columbus, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Help! Mom! Hollywood's in My Hamper! (Hardcover)

You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught

- Oscar Hammerstein (damn librul)