Jacquelyn Mitchard's Books
Apr.25.2006
The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World
Edited by Therese J. Borchard
About the Anthology
The supermom is a suburban legend. At some point, we've all forgotten to pack a lunch, yelled at our kids, or been late to soccer practice. This book is for every mom who has ever gotten angry at being interrupted from a consecutive five hours of sleep...
Mar.10.2006
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan
About the Anthology
The wide-ranging essays in this collection examine the mother-daughter bond and the experience of raising girls. Taking on topics like "princess power" ("Shining, Shimmering, Splendid"), adding a girl to a brood of boys ("Confessions of a Tomboy Mom"), dealing with a daughter's eating disorder (...
Nov.03.2005
Edited by Pamela Kruger & Jill Smolowe
About the Anthology
Impressive for both its breadth and its quality, A Love Like No Other is a timely and heartwarming mosaic of the contemporary lives of adoptive parents and their children. In elegant prose and with refreshing honesty, these essays will introduce you to a group of families you won't soon forget.
From Publishers Weekly...
Oct.21.2005
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan
About the Anthology
It's A Boy, is a wide-ranging, often-humorous, and honest collection of essays about the experience of mothering boys. Taking on topics like aggression, parenting a teenage boy, and wishing for a daughter but getting a son, It's A Boy explores what it's like to mother sons and how that experience may be different, but no less...
Apr.12.2005
Named for her father, Henry Marie wants a pet so bad it hurts - a kitten, a horse, even a little sister would do!
But her parents nix every idea Henry has, until one day her farmer father comes home with a little creature he rescued from a restaurant basement, just hours before she was to become Peking Duck.
Rosalie becomes Henry's constant, sometimes irksome, but...
Sep.01.2004
On a midwestern farm, a mother bat tries to convince her newborn son that he is indeed nocturnal, and must go to sleep during the daytime, as much as he protests. A book about a Halloween creature that is comforting rather than threatening, Baby Bat was drawn by award-winning artist Julia Noonan, with luscious results.
Baby Bat's Lullaby is the first children's book I wrote...
Nov.04.2002
A Theory of Relativity, the most acclaimed of my novels, was inspired by "the blood relative case," a real custody case that took place in a city near where I live. When his 26-year-old sister (who suffers from cancer) dies in a car accident with her husband, leaving behind a baby daughter, Gordon McKenna naturally believes he will adopt the baby girl, Keefer, whom he...
Sep.07.1995
Edited by Susan Wadia-Ells
About the Anthology
These personal essays and stories are informed by the contemporary adoption movement and raise timely issues that illustrate its complexity, among them: open and closed adoption, cross-cultural adoption, the birth record debate, the experience of biracial adoptees, adoption by lesbian couples and the search for identity.
The...
"There are chick lit writers, and then there are novelists like Mitchard who write about-and for-flesh-and-blood females who must cope with the vagaries of life and marriage. . . . In her sixth novel Mitchard, who also writes children's books, mines the landscape of a shattering family to illuminate the moments of forgiveness and grace." - People
"Jacquelyn...
Writing is like breaking rocks in the hot sun, for the angels.”
About Jacquelyn
Jacquelyn Mitchard was born in Chicago, the daughter of plumber and a mother who brought her putty from her part-time job at the hardware store. Of Canadian, Czech, and American Indian descent (a member of the Lac du Flambeau Cree Chippewa tribe) she is...
Connections
Causes Jacquelyn Mitchard Supports
National MS Society, Women Against MS, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, One Writer's Place