From an award-winning illustrator and childrens book author comes a touching, honest, and laugh-out-loud funny memoir about parenting, love, and the wonder of new life.I would have sooner been handed a bomb than a baby, admits Elisha Cooper, early in his charming chronicle of his first year as a father. But that, like everything else, is about to change. Luckily, Cooper recorded it all: from playing Outkasts So Fresh, So Clean as he changes his daughter's diaper, to having a romantic dinner at Chez Panisse with his wifeand baby. Coopers disarmingly beautiful essays about the perils and pleasures of parenthood will appeal to any reader, and especially all parents, no matter how old their children. He has done what every new parent is too busy, or too tired, to docaptured with grace the joys, fears, and stumbles of learning to raise a child for the first time.From the Trade Paperback edition.