Title: Top Tips for Girls

Author: Kate Reardon

Publisher: Three Rivers Press (Crown Publishing)

ISBN: 978-9-307-40669-9

Genre: Reference 

 

In today’s world, where Home Ec isn’t taught in schools, and families live separated by many miles, women turn toward magazines and TV personalities to teach us how to live better, cook, look, and organize.  Kate Reardon has made it simple in her Top Tips for Girls book that will give us hundreds of tips on all aspects of our lives from gardening, cooking, packing, cleaning, and many more. 

Some of the topics include: 

• How to get children to eat vegetables
• How to dump your date
• How to shampoo a dog
• How to clean diamonds
• How to improve your skin
• How to peel an onion without crying

 

Written by readers who visited Ms. Reardon’s website, the book is full of advice ranging from “why didn’t I think of that” common sense, to hilarious solutions that will make you laugh out loud. 

Top Tips for Girls is definitely a book you’ll want to keep handy for reference – it will make real life easier.  $13.95. 228 pages.