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Title: Still Life With Children: Tales of Family Life by Richard Scrimger ISBN: 0006384862 Publisher: Harpercollins Canada Pub. Date: May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
Summary: The funniest family-life book ever written. Really.
Comment: I stumbled across this book while looking for one of Scrimger's children's titles and picked it up after the initial glance suggested this guy was really funny.

Well I wasn't disappointed. It is the first book in years that I have read that has me laughing out loud and chortling every few minutes. His description of life with four kids under the age of six is so accurate and heart felt that you just want to go over to his place and pay a visit (although the floor is sure to be sticky, the furniture toppled over and the noise level at high volume).

He covers a full year in the life of his brood, dissecting birthday parties, Hallowe'en, school concerts and less-than mundane visits to laundromats, jewelry stores and doctors' offices. Although I thought that I was happy that my own kids have graduated to their teens, I get slightly melancholy reading about this young family's everyday adventures. But it is so wonderfully written and entertainingly told, there isn't room for sadness.

There is also not a wasted word in the book. It is tightly written and even his stream-of-consciousness word play with his toddler is efficient and sharp. But most of all I love his observations about the nature of kids... his and the rest of ours.

"... Ed is a perfect conductor (of sticky and messy materials). Ever wonder how the honey or Magic Marker is conveyed to the rug and the furniture? I tell you, it's through the kids. Ed is amazing, he's like copper wire, he can reach for a jam-filled donut with his right hand and instantly discover jam on the tablecloth under his left hand. I myself have seen this."

Dave Barry would retire if he knew that Richard Scrimger was entering the field. This has got to be the funniest dad alive.