Author

Author of 30 books and creator of The Mother of All Books ® series: The Mother of All Pregnancy Books, The Mother of All Baby Books, The Mother of All Toddler Books, and The Mother of All Parenting Books. Note: The second Canadian edition of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books has just been released. 

Books focus on pregnancy and parenting (The Unofficial Guide to Having a Baby, The Unofficial Guide to Childcare, Choosing Childcare for Dummies, Trying Again: A Guide to Pregnancy After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Loss, Family Finance), self-help (Sanity Savers, The Incredible Shrinking Woman), history and pop culture (Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Canadian History) and children's non-fiction (Baby Science, Before You Were Born, The Family Tree Detective, Body Talk: The Straight Facts About Fitness, Nutrition, and Feeling Great About Yourself).

Career Highlights

Appeared on a Cheerios box with Canadian women's Olympic hockey team star Cassie Campbell as part of a
"Read the Box" literacy campaign (2002).

Contributor to a number of respected anthologies about motherhood, including Shari MacDonald Strong's The Maternal is Political, Andrea Buchanan's It's a Girl, May Friedman and Shana Calixte's Mothering and Blogging: The Radical Act of the Mommy Blog, and Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman's Gravity Pulls You In.