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Cathy Little Books
Series · 5 books · 1983-1999

Books in series

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#3

Confessions to My Mother

1999

For years, Cathy and her mother have been working out their relationship on the comic pages in such an honest, relatable, humor-filled way that thousands of mothers and daughters have written to say the comic strip is the single thing that has helped them keep speaking to each other over the years. In Confessions to My Mother, Cathy helps daughters speak to their mothers in an even more poignant way—with page after page of everything from embarrassing truths... "The last time you came to visit I spent a whole day hiding things before you got here." to belated admissions... I'm sorry for the 10 to 15 years I spent grunting at you." to personal revelations... The inside of my bathroom cabinet looks exactly as bad as the inside of your bathroom cabinet." and heartfelt sentiments.. "When I make your chicken soup, it doesn't taste like your chicken soup." "The thing I am the most sure of in my life is that you love me." "Because of you, I can't throw out a cardboard box." According to creator Cathy Guisewite, Confessions to My Mother is "all the deep, insightful, meaningful things I want to say to Mom, but never actually say because I'm too busy acting like a five-year-old when I'm with her."
#4

Affirmations

1996

Book by Guisewite, Cathy
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#5

Shop Till You Drop, Then Sit Down And Buy Shoes

1996

The stoplight is always green on Main Street. And you'll see green in your bottom line with unstoppable gift book sales of our Main Street Editions. Main Street Editions make a perfect, personal gift at an unbeatable price.
#6

How to Get Rich, Fall in Love, Lose Weight, and Solve All Your Problems by Saying "No"

1983

Provides satirical advice on techniques for becoming assertive and refusing people's requests for loans, help with work, and dates
#7

Eat Your Way to a Better Relationship

1983

A satirical view of the problem of overeating discusses the influence of a woman's love life on her eating habits

Author

Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Guisewite
Author · 29 books

Cathy Lee Guisewite is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy in 1976. Her main cartoon character (Cathy) is a career woman faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as Guisewite herself put it in one of her strips, "The four basic guilt groups." Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Midland, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. Guisewite received her bachelor's degree in English in 1972. She also holds seven honorary degrees. In 1993, Guisewite received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society. In 1987, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program for the TV special Cathy, which aired on CBS. Guisewite was a frequent guest in the latter years of the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Guisewite and her husband Chris Wilkinson reside in Los Angeles. She has a daughter and a stepson.

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