You Wouldn't Believe What My Grandchild Did... [Hardcover]

Lois Wyse (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1994

A popular observer of today's energetic and demanding grandparenting offers a hilarious collection of wit, wisdom, anecdotes, lessons, and truths that capture the delights and hazards of a special time of life. 125,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Syndicated columnist Wyse ( Grandmother's Treasures ) surveys the experience of grandparenting, strewing anecdotes, cliches and children's clever sayings as she goes, along with smart comments about relations between children and their elders. Although she is a dedicated storyteller and preserver of family traditions, this grandmother is no rocking-chair, cake-baking stalwart, but instead asserts a grandmother's rights to dance, party, operate computers and send faxes, have boyfriends, remarry and enjoy "fun without all that responsibility." With coy declarations about "parents being our mutual enemy," Wyse emphasizes grandparents' roles as confidants and chronicles bonding of the young and old.
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From Booklist

This collection of Wyse's popular Good Housekeeping columns depicts being a grandmother at its most pleasant. Wyse regales her readers with her own experiences as a contemporary grandmother who "doesn't dress like someone out of Farmer's Almanac," but many of her stories come from her readers, women who are "blessed with lithe bodies and active minds but old-fashioned love." They also exhibit an unapologetic braggodacio about the wonders of their grandchildren. Amid the anecdotes are a few tips for effective grandparenting and how to handle such issues as dating, family traditions, and runaway horses. According to Wyse's mother and readers who are quoted, great-grandmotherhood is another set of blessings altogether. Denise Perry Donavin

Product Details

• Hardcover: 126 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671892932
• ISBN-13: 978-0671892937
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,541,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars HAPPY, HOMEY, AND HILARIOUS, April 30, 2007

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YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT MY GRANDCHILD DID.....

By Lois Wyse

Simon & Schuster

Asserting that nowadays grandparents work, travel, dance, and party (citing such grandmas as Elizabeth Taylor and Debbie Reynolds), syndicated columnist Lois Wyse takes us on a laugh and love filled trip to the planet of grandparents (it's called heaven).

The author's "Ten Ways to your Grandchild Love You" may not have won the parental seal of approval, but it surely rated high with grandchildren. With tongue in cheek, Wyse described parents as the common enemy, and chronicled the special bonds between the very young and much older.

A grand mother of nine and the author of many books, including Funny, You Don't Look Like A Grandmother" and "Grandchildren Are So Much Fun I Should Have Had Them First," Lois Wyse has again joyously documented the hilarious, happy and homey aspects of grandparenting.

- Gail Cooke