How To Get Rid of Your Children

An educational guide with a twist, for all parents on the verge of a nervous breakdown... with radical (and hilarious) solutions to restore peace! Extreme methods, effectiveness not guaranteed...

 

You love your children. Of course you do! But they wear you out, cling to you, yell at you, demand your attention... and then do it all over again. So you’re tired and at the end of your rope...

Don’t worry, there are solutions to help you restore a little calm to your home.

With jubilant dark humor and brilliantly illustrated absurd situations, this is a hilarious fake parenting guide. Each page offers a crazy and crual method for getting rid of your dear little ones (temporarily?).

In a society with high, sometimes contradictory, expectations about how parents should act, an irreverent and cathartic way for the whole family to laugh together at their small and big flaws.

 

 

THE AUTHOR

 

Michaël Escoffier is the author of around a hundred children’s books, in collaboration with various illustrators: Kris Di Giacomo, Matthieu Maudet, Roland Garrigue, Sébastien Mourrain, Eléonore Thuillier, and others. He has received, among other awards, the Prix des Libraires du Québec for the picture book Sans le A and, more recently, the Prix des Incorruptibles for Plus gros que le ventre co-authored with Amandine Piu.

 

 

THE ILLUSTRATOR

 

Born in 1982, Amandine Piu grew up near Lyon before studying for a BTS in visual communication, then joining the illustration workshop at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, where she graduated in 2005. A renowned illustrator in children’s publishing, she also works for the press, board games, and stationery. Her world combines
humor, tenderness, poetry, and a host of mischievous little characters. Her books have been translated into more than 15 languages.