The Granny Diaries

All grannied out yet? Hope not! 'Cuz guess what...? Yup – I went and illustrated yet another granny book for Chronicle Books, and it's available now! This one is quite different from Good Granny/Bad Granny, but different in a good way. It's called The Granny Diaries: An Opinionated How-To Guide, and is written by Adair Lara, an award-winning columnist with the San Francisco Chronicle.

There's not as many of my illustrations in this book compared to Good Granny/Bad Granny, but that's because the tone is much more sophisticated, and a little bit more serious, but still full of lots of good humour. The book is divided into five major parts, with many subsections in each part. Some of the headings in the book include: Parent, Schmarent: You and the Kid and The Paternal Grandmother and Cutting Grandma Some Slack.

I think Granny Diaries is a nice foil for Good Granny/Bad Granny – one you can read for total laughs and silliness, and the other you can get good down-to-earth advice, while still having a chuckle at the same time.

And I must say that the fellow who art directed this book – a very talented guy by the name of Jay Salvas – did a fabulous job. The book is a visual joy from beginning to end. I can't say it enough – the folks at Chronicle are amazing people to work for. If you are an artist or a writer and you want to work with super-creative, professional, fun and dynamic people, then get thee to Chronicle Books, baby.

Comments

[Stephanie]

Oh my granny goodness! What a great grandparents day gift this set of books would make!

[Beth]

Looks wonderful - off to Amazon - again!

[Ellen]

I love the look of this book, it's wonderful and that is one chic granny.

[Patricia]

Thanks, Ellen! It's a very common theme now with anything associated with those 'Boomer Grandparents' especially the grandmothers – today's granny is no knitting, orthopedic shoe-wearing silverback; the granny of the new millennium is sexy and hot and yes, chic, baby! (How's that for savvy marketing?)

[Singing Librarian]

Awesome blog. We are doing this on a professional development day and I really needed a laugh. Thanks for the poem!