An original illustrated "diary" about motherhood by the award-winning English illustrator Polly Dunbar: with humor, honesty, and tenderness, it captures the joy, but also the fatigue and anxiety that every mother feels as her child grows. "I have been writing and illustrating children's books since I graduated from art school, but I never thought of drawing something for adults until I had my children. I didn't want all those hilarious and beautiful moments of their childhood to be lost as if taken by the wind. I felt that the only way to capture them was through quick sketches, something like a diary with pictures, if you will. These sketches were mostly done excessively early in the morning, with a coffee in hand, my sketchpad on my lap, with the boys climbing on me and 'borrowing' my pencils. I hope that, apart from the complete exhaustion and absolute pandemonium that characterize motherhood, I managed to depict a part of the magic of this entire period."