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On Catherine Gilbert Murdock's "The Adventures of Mommy Buzzkill" (from 2009)
In her 2009 Horn Book Magazine article "The Adventures of Mommy Buzzkill," Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of Dairy Queen, Princess Ben, Heaven Is Paved with Oreos, and other YA books featuring complex and feisty teen girls who frequently subvert gender assumptions, wrote tongue-in-cheekily about the prevalence of dead, missing, or otherwise absentee mothers in children's literature: "Given the ubiquity of maternal mortality in children’s literature, one marvels that the human race has managed to survive at all.
In her 2009 Horn Book Magazine article "The Adventures of Mommy Buzzkill," Catherine Gilbert Murdock, author of Dairy Queen, Princess Ben, Heaven Is Paved with Oreos, and other YA books featuring complex and feisty teen girls who frequently subvert gender assumptions, wrote tongue-in-cheekily about the prevalence of dead, missing, or otherwise absentee mothers in children's literature: "Given the ubiquity of maternal mortality in children’s literature, one marvels that the human race has managed to survive at all." Why? It's because moms can be such a drag.
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