When Mom is You

This book is made up of those well-known notes in the notebook that readers often ask about. I rarely make notes because I forget where I wrote them anyway. I kept this notebook only because a two-year-old girl, my friend's daughter, drew in it, and her first-grader sister invented her own font. In this very notebook, I wrote funny rhymes for her and explained the difference between hard and soft signs, which seemed the same to the first-grader. "Well, who invented all these letters? Did they even think about children?" my student scoffed... And here too - notes on a line, two, a paragraph. Real situations that shocked, surprised, or amused me. This book is a collection of small stories about big feelings. Masha Traub