The All Better Book

by Suzy Becker

Suzy Becker, the author and illustrator of the runaway bestseller All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat and My Dog's the World's Best Dog , teams up with elementary school children to write a little book of a different sort-how to make the world all better.

Illustrated in full-color with Suzy Becker's distinctive joyous, whimsical style, the book captures the essence of the children's ideas. On how bosses could make the workplace more pleasant, Yesenia, 9, says "Give a break for five hours." On the issue of what to do with lawbreakers, a 7-year-old named Lily "Make them do gymnastics for a month." When asked how to repair the hole in the ozone layer, Sara, age 8, "Get some dirt and seeds and plant flowers over the hole to make it look pretty for the aliens." All better. Selection of the Literary Guild. Over 130,000 copies in print.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 1992

About the author

An author, artist, educator, and entrepreneur, Suzy Becker began her career as an award-winning advertising copywriter, and then founded the Widget Factory, a greeting card company. She entered the world of books with what would become the internationally bestselling All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat, now in the Double-Platinum Collector's Edition All I Need to Know I Learned from My Cat And Then Some. Suzy has since written and illustrated My Dog's the World's Best Dog, I Had Brain Surgery What's Your Excuse, Manny's Cows Books Are for Reading, Kids Make It Better A Write-in Draw-in Journal, One Good Egg and Kate the Great Except When She's Not. Her books, greeting cards and work in print and TV advertising have earned her numerous design and writing awards.

Yankee Magazine named Suzy Becker one of four 2010-11 "Angels Among Us" for her community service initiatives, including the Ride For AIDS Resources (Ride FAR), the country's first HIV/AIDS bike-a-thon, which has raised over $1,000,000 for HIV/AIDS service organizations. Suzy has also received the Anti-Defamation League's "A World of Difference" Award for her "I Don't Put Up with Put Downs" anti-bullying/prejudice awareness education project.

In 1992, Suzy was named New England Women Business Owners' youngest ever Woman of the Year. She was a 1993-1994 White House Fellow, a 1999-2000 Bunting Fellow, and she is a perennial finalist in the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes. Suzy was also the founding arts teacher at the Parker Charter School in Ayer, MA.

She lives with her family, a dog and a formerly feral cat in central Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Sharon Zink · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contains kids' ideas for improving the world.