The AV Club's Surprisingly Specific Holiday Gift Guide
Date of Review:
Dec.07.2005
Published Work:
Reviewer:
By Andy Battaglia, Amelie Gillette, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robi
Source:
The Onion AV Club
FOR DRUNKEN PARENTS WHO NEED TO KNOW WHICH MITER TO WEAR TO THEIR OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY
Baby Be Of Use books ($9 each)
How To Dress For Every Occasion, By The Pope ($12)
Every holiday season sees a sudden upswing in the number of stocking-stuffer and novelty-type impulse-buy books sitting next to bookstore registers, but few of this year's crop are likely to be as cute or acerbic as McSweeney's Baby Be Of Use series, a pair of ultra-simple pictorial board books giving infants their marching orders: Baby Mix Me A Drink is a visual guide to a few basic cocktails, while Baby Make Me Breakfast depicts a post-bender meal in which aspirin is one of the courses.
About Lisa
LISA BROWN is the bestselling illustrator and/or author of a growing number of books, including How to Be, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, and Baby Mix Me a Drink. Picture the Dead, an illustrated YA Civil War ghost story written with author Adele...
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