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Lynn Johnston, creator of one of the best-selling contemporary cartoons in North America, For Better or For Worse, along with her long-time friend and author Andie Parton, successfully portrays all of the excitement and anticipation of becoming a grandmother in this charming gift book. It is the perfect keepsake for any expectant grandmother.It is hard to know who looks forward to a new baby more, an expectant parent or an expectant grandmother. From the time the announcement is made, a grandma-to-be may be full of questions: "Aren't I too young for this? Or maybe too old? What will they call me? Will they need me, or resent my 'help'? Can I really do this?
So You're Going to Be a Grandma! offers the perfect reassurance in the form of a delightful poem that covers all the doubts and questions, joys and successes as a new grandma proves to be a godsend to her new grandchild and its parents:
"Baby weeps and so does mother,
Daddy isn't far behind,
Both so nervous and exhausted
This is where a grandma shines.
Readers of For Better or For Worse will recognize new Grandma Elly as well as her son, Mike, and his wife, Deanna, and appreciate the inclusion of families of various ethnicities in these heartwarming drawings. So You're Going to Be a Grandma! perfectly celebrates the universal love of a grandchild.
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Chris Man
reviewed So You're Going to Be a Grandma! (For Better or For Worse Series) on April 26, 2015 So You're Going to Be a Grandma! (For Better or For Worse Series)
A rather uneven volume this go-around.
Volume 3's highlights include the continuation of the Boris Arson storyline, the Addie Gothorn mystery, and the character of Mimi from the Lips Manlis arc. As I've mentioned before, Arson is directly influenced by the career of John Dillinger. Another gangster in this volume, Cut Famon, very clearly is modeled after Al Capone. And his tommy gun-toting ma is a takeoff on Ma Barker. Gould's stories are typically products of their times.
But there's a lot of melodrama too. For the better part of 1935, Toby Townley (a parody of Toby Wing) plays a major role in the strip. Toby is a sympathetic character who gets mixed up with the wrong people. In another time, this might have meant death in Gould's universe. But he seems to have been trying to add a second, recurring female character to the strip. Toby would all but disappear from the strip after 1936.
Racial stereotypes also begin to pop up in this volume. Chief Yellowpony is almost passable. But the black valet, "Memphis", is cringeworthy. Thankfully neither stays in the strip for very long.
I'm also not a big fan of the Lips Manlis 'reformed criminal' storyline. Manlis' transition from hoodlum to saint is too easy, too simple. Tracy also seems very out-of-character in this story, with Gould too obviously inserting himself into his main character's thoughts.
Still, this is good material, but comes in a little lower than Volume 2 of the series.
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