All the Wrong People Have Self-Esteem: An Inappropriate Book for Young Ladies* (Paperback)

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Product Description

These days, a lot of people are trying to tell teens what’s best for them. Here’s a look at life from artist and professional nonconformist Laurie Rosenwald, who insists that she doesn’t want to tell anyone what to do. But when you are as irreverent as she is (Is the earth really worth saving?) and as funny (Your breasts: What do they mean?) people sort of DO want to know what you think. Then again, if you think like Rosenwald, it could get you kicked out of yoga class.

In the tradition of nothing you’ve ever seen or read, All the Wrong People Have Self Esteem is for young women* who ask good questions about life and then like to laugh at the answers. Got a better approach?

*or frankly, anybody else.

About the Author

LAURIE ROSENWALD is an award winning designer who launched her site and studio, rosenworld.com in 1995. She teaches a workshop called “How to Make Mistakes on Purpose,” and has been a professor of graphic design at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. Her New York Notebook is on sale at the George Pompidou Center in Paris, and everyplace else that’s cool. Her first picture book, And To Name But Just a Few: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, was named a Scholastic Parent & Child Best Book of 2007. She is also a painter, speaks Swedish like a native New Yorker, and appeared as “Woman” on “The Sopranos.”

Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books (December 9, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599902400
• ISBN-13: 978-1599902401
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #479,524 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Honesty, December 21, 2008

By	Norman Hathaway (brooklyn) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Being the parent of a 14-year-old girl I'm happy to have found Rosenwald's book. At first glance it may seem flip or a bit goofy, but there is quite a bit of earnest, useful advice for young women that is written in a direct and heartfelt matter. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For All Minds That Love to Frolic, December 21, 2008

By	flashberg (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

Rosenwald exalts us with extreme truth expressed with so much original spunk and clarity, you'll feel inspired to bake Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Muffins," a concept introduced in the book where you combine ingredients which don't go together...and YET THEY DO! Like beets and chocolate. Like vegetarians and meat. Laurie speaks in fluent collage. She combines bits of images, paint, rants and ideas like a surrealist writing a survival manual. And the best thing is, IT ALL MAKES SENSE. I have never met a book so vastly original, strange, poetic, hilarious, helpful and hip all at once. Laurie Rosenwald makes THINKING FUN... which is why this is an excellent book for all minds that love to frolic.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Say it like it is, December 20, 2008

By	Keira Alexandra (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

What a refreshing pleasure it is to have a Laurie Rosenwald book in your hands. Bright and funny and sophisticated and wise and playful and creative and tactile and amusing and most of all, so deadly honest, which we could all use a little more of in this world.