What's a Mother to Do? -- Signature Books

What's a Mother to Do?
ANN EDWARDS CANNON
Paperback. 170 Pages. / 1-56085-095-7 / ~~$12.95~~ Now $6.00

Being a mother may not seem that amusing to, well, mothers. But the way Ann Edwards Cannon tells it—drawing on real-life experiences that will remind readers of their own most embarrassing family moments—parenting can be as hilarious and unpredictable as any situation comedy. Like when her kids forgot to tell her about the police officers waiting for her in the front room . . . or when her youngest refused her collect long-distance telephone call home!

She despairs at being able to master such essential mothering skills as the mysterious watermelon thump at the grocery store, and she worries that her children suffer. Because as she has learned: we pass on our goofiest genes to our kids.

Ann Edwards Cannon (class of Provo High '74) is the author of seven books, two of which—Amazing Gracie and The Shadow Brothers—were named Best Young Adult Book of the Year by the American Library Association. (What's a Mother to Do? is her first book for grown-ups.) She is a columnist for the Deseret News, and writes for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Exponent II, The New Era, Parent Express, Teen, and This People. She is the daughter of Wyoming rodeo queen Patti Louise Covey and Utah State University linebacker LaVell Edwards—which may explain a lot. She and her baseball-historian husband, Ken, live in Salt Lake City and have five sons: Philip, Alec, Dylan, Geoffrey, and Quinton. According to a bumper sticker on the family minivan, she once dated Jimi Hendrix, but she says that part is a lie. The rest is real.