My Books
The Daring Series:
The Daring Book For Girls
by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
(HarperCollins, 2007)
A New York Times and international bestseller with over a million copies sold, The Daring Book For Girls is the perfect book for any girl with an eye for adventure and a nose for trouble. The Daring Book For Girls features a checklist of essentials for braving any adventure (including patience!); five powerhouse karate moves and the yoga “sun salutation”; cool math tricks; classic silly pranks and a primer for telling scary ghost stories; Chinese jump rope; inspiration and guidelines for cultivating a secret garden; profiles of queens of the ancient world and today’s real-life princesses; tips on how to paddle a canoe, perfect a cartwheel, and negotiate a salary; staples for every girl’s toolbox and blueprints for making a handlebar scooter; twenty books every girl should read — and so much more! Find out more about the book here.
The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Things To Do
by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
(HarperCollins, 2008)
This portable, pocket-sized take on the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book For Girls is filled with many favorite activities from the original, plus some exciting new games, crafts, and projects. The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Things To Do includes the long-awaited chapter on making a zip line in your backyard, along with everything from skateboarding tricks to drawing tips, including making a geyser from Mentos and Diet Coke, learning how to run faster, making a skirt out of a pillowcase, dancing the Tinikling, and figuring out the definitive answer to the age-old question, Can you really fry an egg on the sidewalk?
The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Wisdom and Wonder
by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
(HarperCollins, 2008)
Another fun, portable, pocket-sized guide filled with tons of favorite facts (and brand-new chapters), The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Wisdom and Wonder is just the thing for anyone who loves to discover new ideas and trade knowledge with family and friends. It includes classics from the original Daring Book, plus all-new chapters on the mystery and history of zero, curious tongue twisters, spiraling galaxies, layers of the earth and air, speaking French around the world, the harmony of Greek columns, and the beauty of Fibonacci numbers. Filled to the brim with so many fun things to know, The Pocket Daring Book for Girls: Wisdom and Wonder is the perfect companion for the adventures that come you way, and for the downtime in between.
The Double-Daring Book For Girls
by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
(HarperCollins, 2009)
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the international bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea ceremony. This second volume, with all new original material, promises a double-daring adventure. Girls will learn how to surf, get horseback riding tips, make a labyrinth, discover April Fool’s Day history and pranks, how to organize a croquet tournament, find out about cowgirls, the Nobel Prize, being a detective and much more! Just as packed with creative and exciting material as the original, but twice as fun, this book will be beloved by Daring fans everywhere! Find out more about the book here.
On Motherhood:
Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It
By Andrea J. Buchanan (Seal Press, 2003)
My first book, a collection of essays about the culture shock of new motherhood. More about the book.
It’s a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan (Seal Press, 2006)
Myself and contributors (including Joyce Maynard, Katharine Weber, and Catherine Newman) on everything from “princess power” (”Shining, Shimmering, Splendid”), adding a girl to a brood of boys (”Confessions of a Tomboy Mom”), and dealing with a daughter’s eating disorder (”The Food Rules”). More about the book.
It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan (Seal Press, 2005)
Myself and contributors (including Jodi Picoult and Marion Winik, among others) on everything from aggression (”The Bully’s Mother”) to mothering a teenaged boy (”Shapeshifter”) to wishing for a daughter but getting a son (”Breaking the Curse”). More about the book.
Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined
Edited by Andrea J. Buchanan and Amy Hudock (Seal Press, 2006)
Featuring the best writing from the online literary magazine LiteraryMama.com, devoted to excellent fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and more by mother-writers. More about the book.
Anthologies to which I’ve contributed:
About What Was Lost: Twenty Writers on Miscarriage, Healing, and hope
Edited by Jessica Berger Gross (Plume, 2006)
I expanded and rewrote the chapter “Misconceptions,” from Mother Shock, for this collection.
The Imperfect Mom: Candid Confessions of Mothers Living in the Real World
Edited by Therese J. Borchard (Broadway, 2006)
I contributed a piece called “Dirty Laundry Saved My Baby’s Life,” about how a pile of dirty clothes saved Nate from a fall off the changing table.
Your Children Will Raise You: The Joys, Challenges, and Life Lessons of Motherhood
Edited by Eden Steinberg (Trumpeter, 2005)
This book excerpts two chapters from Mother Shock.
Breeder: Real-Life Tales from the New Generation of Mothers
Edited by Ariel Gore and Bee Lavender (Seal Press, 2001)
My piece in this collection is titled “The Piano Tuner.”