For him:
You're My Guy Because...
by Patricia Storms
9781933176185
Hardcover, 6 by 6 inches, 65 pp.
$12.9U
This tells your man why your pulse picks up when he's around.
A century and a half ago, Elizabeth Barrett Browning started a poem, to Robert Browning, with the now-famous words:
How do I love thee?
Let me count the ways...
That was then. This book is now.
This small book of many witty reasons in winning words with amusing illustrations reveals how true affection is built from little things that mean a lot to those who've shared them. So go ahead—make his day.
Pat Storms, an illustrator for leading magazines in both the U.S. and Canada, is based in Toronto.
For her:
You're My Women Because...
by Patrick J. Murphy
9781933176178
Hardcover, 6 by 6 inches, 64 pp.
$12.95
You're my woman because...
...you're there when I need you.
...you're full of surprises.
...you're so hot.
This is a book for a man to give to a special someone in his life. It says in so many ways and in just as many wry paintings that the small stuff is sometimes big.
Original and a bit wild, it has an artfully simple message: I'm happy we connected. Bring her flowers if you will, but give her this little book to treasure.
Pat Murphy, who both speaks and draws with an Irish lilt, is based in Belfast.
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Never Kiss a Frog
A Girl's Guide to Creatures from the Dating Swamp
by Marilyn Anderson
Paperback $14Single women can’t afford to believe in fairy tales. Frogs don’t turn into princes—men don’t change—no matter how tenderly they’re handled. Some are adept at hiding their reptilian views while others seem oblivious to their inner slime. Even an astute, Sex-and-The-City type of gal can be fooled. That’s why every lady hoping for a princely mate needs Never Kiss a Frog.
Marilyn Anderson’s funny, illustrated guide reveals frogs and toads in their many guises. The author hilariously plumbs the romantic misadventures of herself and her friends for the early (but overlooked) signs that a plausible Mr. Right is Mr. Wrong. Armed with Never Kiss a Frog, a gal can tell who should be tossed back into the pond and who might be a keeper.