From the creator of the beloved Large family comes a sympathetic--and
simply hilarious--look at a toddler's grocery-store tantrum.
One morning, Mom decides to take Roxy grocery shopping. "Roxy can help
Mommy," she says cheerfully. Roxy makes a promising start, but when she
squeezes the potato chip bag and rolls a can of beans across the floor,
Mom is not pleased. "You're not being very helpful, Roxy," she says,
plunking the child back in the grocery cart. "Not very helpful," Roxy
agrees. But being agreeable lasts only as far as the bakery aisle, where
the need for a certain piggy-face cake spurs a level of high-decibel
determination--and a display of headfirst acrobatics--that has onlookers
staring in awe. With the signature humor that made Five Minutes' Peace
a classic, Jill Murphy escalates a toddler meltdown to its comical
breaking point, leaving readers laughing and heaving a sigh of relief
not to be driving (or riding in) that grocery cart.