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Rockabye is the lively memoir of a spontaneous young city-girl who becomes unexpectedly pregnant. That city-girl is Rebecca Woolf, who at 23, after the "holy shit, I'm pregnant" realization, decides to keep the baby, marry the boyfriend (in Vegas no less), and figure out how to wed her rock n' roll lifestyle and impending motherhood.

With humor, honesty, and renegade insight, Rebecca makes the transition from life as an odd-job doing commitment-phobic, chain-smoking, irresponsible party-girl to life as a work-at-home mother with a different kind of social life. Throughout, Rebecca doesn't relinquish the token qualities of her free-spirited, pre-baby self; rebelling against both the "soccer mom," and "young mother" stereotypes, challenging herself to grow up without outgrowing her dreams, and most importantly embracing motherhood without a map.

Rockabye explores the coming together of mother and son and their mutual coming of age. How does Rebecca adapt to motherhood? By acting on instinct and maintaining a strong sense of self, breaking rules (sometimes her own) in the process and building her own adventures out of legos and alphabet blocks.

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April 15, 2008
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In Rebecca Woolf's new book Rockabye: From Wild to Child, she offers a truly unique perspective on motherhood, after finding herself single and unexpectedly pregnant at age 23. Her rebellious story attacks those old stereotypes about maternal instincts as she admits that motherhood is masochism at its finest. Leader of a new generation of Do-It-Yourself moms, Woolf advocates living by your own rules (and eschewing the advice of parenting manuals) in order to raise fiercely independent children. Her simple tale of getting knocked up will knock your socks off. -- Z!nk Magazine

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Freelance writer, essayist, novelist, photojournalist, and full-time blogger, twenty-five-year-old Rebecca Woolf has worked as a professional writer since age sixteen. Her contributions to the Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul series introduced more than five million readers to her fiction, non-fiction, and poems, as well as brought her national attention as a popular guest on television, and with educational events (FOX, FOX Family, CBS, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Missouri Children’s Literature Festival). Her journalism has taken her around the world with eye specifically on music, travel, and sex. Rebecca has written articles for 19 UK, Transworld Stance, FW, Grace Ormonde Wedding Style, Ladies and Gentlemen Magazine, Babycenter.com, nerve.com and MSNBC. Her photography has been published internationally in web and print, including www.looklook.com and Black Book Magazine. Rebecca has also spent time as marketing and sales manager for the Los Angeles-based Entertainment Marketing Group, strategizing marketing concepts for clients that include Random House, HarperCollins, and LucasArts.

Most recently Rebecca has attracted international attention for her parenting blog, www.girlsgonechild.blogspot.com. She contributes to nerve.com’s parenting website, www.babble.com. Her column is “Straight from the Bottle with Rebecca Woolf.” EPregnancy recently contacted her and asked if she would write for them. They'll be publishing issues of Rebecca's personal blog, Girl Gone Child, as well as commissioning her for more.
Rebecca currently resides in Los Angeles where she works as a freelance writer and as well as online chat host/copywriter for the Starlight Starbright Children’s foundation. She lives with her husband, two dogs, and eighteen-month old son, Archer Sage.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seal Press; Illustrated edition (April 15, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580052320
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580052320
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches

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Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2013

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I enjoyed this book and will definitely purchase a sequel if she writes one (and I hope she does!). The author dishes on her unexpected pregnancy which happens while starting a new relationship and living the partying life. It's an honest and revealing account. She describes her evolution as a sudden new mom and wife.
I found that she has also a bit of a philosophical-mystical bent, which I hope she examines and shares in more depth in the future. Some of her writing rambled a bit but contained surprisingly moving and lovely bits of prose. I didn't see the rambling as a flaw but as her unique voice.
The author admits that she doesn't like to take advice and follows her own intuition as a parent, which might seem risky for a new (then) mother, but she is so clearly a passionate and well-intended parent and seems so willing to learn by her own mistakes, that she inspires some confidence as a creative parent. It's a personal memoir, not a family handbook, but I think future parents might find her originality and her deep commitment rather inspiring.

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2008

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I have been a loyal reader of Rebecca Woolf's since back in the days of the Pointy Toe Shoe Factory. This has been a journey that many of us have been riding in the Rebecca's VW carseat on the information superhighway for many years.
I think that there are many of us who have followed along through emotional last few years of her life feeling a bit voyeuristic. Other times I have felt like a passenger, a welcome one, as the dialogue she opens in her blog becomes so much about the reader, not the author.
Blogging about your life is so intimate for both the writer and the reader. It is impossible to not grow attached in this one way relationship. It is very similar for a memoir to feel this way.
I loved this book. So many moments of tears and laughter. Rebecca has an easy voice that is so welcoming. It reads very similarly to her blogs. Those blogs that have kept me checking in on regular day to day basis.
Some friends and I, who are loyal to Woolf's blogs, were worried that it would be too familiar; or worse, just verbatim from the blogosphere. I was relieved to say that isn't so.
For example, coming across the chapter "Things that are relative," It was from a completely different vantage point than when I first read about that time in her life. After reading the chapter, not in tears, but with a wide smile. I was taken back to the night when I sat alone in my office and read about Rebecca's Uncle Pete for the first time. It was dark. Everyone had gone home for the day. I sat there with tears streaming down my face and the blue light from my screen glistening on my face. It gradually grew to full on sobbing. Rebecca posted that in the www, I guess for relief, to get it out, to express those feelings in a tangible way, to share with strangers something so difficult and raw. I was sobbing first for her, but then for my own father, and my mother's father who were both gone from our lives too soon. I hadn't cried or frankly thought about either in a long time. I needed the invitation, from someone I trusted.
That night, her blogs, and especially this memoir, Rockabye, are all examples of how Rebecca has created a dialogue with her readers, that isn't just about her life. As memoirs go, that is trully unique.
A memoir that is less about the writer and more about all of us??? That's so... socialist? I don't know, maybe not, but I love this community that she has created by just having the balls to share.
I was swollen with pride when I got my copy from Amazon. I think many of us have grown from the ride in the passenger seat with Rebecca behind the wheel. At least I have. Thanks, Bec.

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Love Rebecca Woolf!

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2011

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I started reading her blog sometime over this summer and I became immediately obsessed! She has such a free spirited positive look on life and I look forward to every new post. I didn't order the book right away but I'm glad I did. I couldn't put it down. Now that I'm finished I have recommended it to my young mom girlfriends. Its a great story about how what seemed to be an unfortunate situation turned into a wonderful life change.

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Karin B.

Wonderful book

Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2014

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There was nothing about this book I didn't love...it is honest, fresh, real. The cover art is fabulous as well.

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Kayla

Not good

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2012

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Rebecca's style of writing works for her blog, but not a book. There is no depth to this book. I kept waiting for that chapter that would suck me in and it never happened. I read it with my book club and 3 girls didn't finish, the rest of us didn't like it. Save your money!

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J J.

Good read.

Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2012

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The book was very good just not long enough for me but I read alot. If your looking for a short easy book to read this would be it.

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aleach

A Memorable Memoir

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2011

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I follow Rebecca Wolf's blog, and love hearing her realistic comments on her life. Therefore, when I discovered that she had written a book, I was excited to read it!

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