Daddy Dearest: A Guide for First-time Fathers

by Marvin Ross, David Shaw (Illustrations)

The purpose of this modest volume is to provide the new father with a true story of pregnancy, childbirth and newborns. A picture that is not coloured by the biases of the professional practitioner but contains the honest experiences of a hapless novice father who was caught up in a strange experience, managed to cope and wound up enjoying the process more than he anticipated. The book contains many amusing cartoon drawings by the noted Canadian illustrator, David Shaw.

77 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1984

About the author

I am a rather eclectic writer and began with books on humor starting with Cover Your Ass or How to Survive in a Government Bureaucracy using the name Bureaucrat X. That was in 1977 and was followed by two humor books on parenting and then a humor book on pets.

I then switched to serious medical writing with a book on Alzheimer's Disease and then one on eyes.

Earlier this year, I brought out my book on schizophrenia and turned to publishing. In addition to that book published by my company, Bridgeross Communications, I am bringing out two novels by David Laing Dawson, a humor book on parenting and a reissue of the expanded pet book to be called THE ORIGINAL REIGNING CATS AND DOGS: A HUMOROUS LOOK AT PETS AND THEIR OWNERS