How to Push a Perambulator - Tapa dura

"How to Push a Perambulator" is an indispensable tome for emergent and inexpert mothers. This miscellany provides the requisite knowledge with which a lady may efficiently produce and raise a child, whilst maintaining an unruffled composure. Some years of experience and observation have convinced the authors, Allison Vale and Alison Rattle, that modern mothers, almost without exception, simply do not possess the necessary skills. This book is the means by which they would intend to rectify that miserable situation, and furnish all with the advantage of their scholarship. From conception ('How to Produce a Son and Heir'), to adolescence ('How to Lace up Your Daughter'), the essential ('How to Break a Child's Will') and the bizarre ('How to Avoid the Delivery of Monstrous Babies and Rabbits'), this is a humorous romp through the darker, more obscure and frankly ridiculous aspects to the lost arts of motherhood.

Allison Vale was born in Cardiff, South Wales. She taught A-Level History in London before becoming an author and specialist Advisory Teacher. She lives on the Somerset Levels with her husband and their two young children. Alison Rattle was born in Liverpool. She worked in London as a fashion designer before moving into publishing. She now lives in Somerset with her partner and three children. Their previous publications include Mothers' Wit and Wrinklies' Wit & Wisdom Forever (both Prion).