Twenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages. Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend’s house in the company of a young child. She knows the proper order in which the following actions take place: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows what to do with bubble gum. She also deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron’s painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren’s hilarious drawings, which–as ever–present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are.
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“An expert on the indignities inflicted on adults by beloved children, Ephron raises audible laughs as she makes painfully clear the difference between ways we hope small fry will act and the ways they do…Everyone involved with children will recognize and enjoy (if ruefully) the trials so humorously presented.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Here’s a book that’s educational as well as fun.”
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Delia Ephron is a screenwriter, playwright, and New York Times bestselling author. She has written novels for adults and teenagers, books of humor, and essays. Her journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, the Huffington Post, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She collaborated with her sister, Nora Ephron, on a play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran for two years off-Broadway and has been performed in cities across the United States and around the world.
Carol Kane is an Emmy-winning American stage, screen, and television actress. She is known for her role on the television show Taxi and as Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked.