ERIN EILEEN LEIGH & MASHA RUMER at Books Inc. Pruneyard

Join Books inc. Pruneyard in welcoming local authors Erin Eileen Leigh and Masha Rumer for a discussion about their books on parenting! Hear from these authors and parents about their books, and come meet other parents who learnign and growing! About the Books: Secrets to Surviving the Toddler Years: award-winning author and mother of four Erin Eileen Leigh offers practical, research-based guidance to help you manage the toddler years with confidence. Inside Secrets to Surviving the Toddler Years, you'll find: - Solutions for sleep struggles and daily power battles with your toddler - Strategies for handling picky eating and mealtime chaos - Advice for travel, transitions, and unpredictable toddler behavior - Encouragement for overwhelmed parents - Tips to prioritize self-care and create daily routines Drawing from research, expert recommendations, and conversations with parents of toddlers-as well as her own experience raising four children-Erin provides realistic direction for overwhelmed parents along with some funny and relatable stories about toddler behavior. Yes, the toddler years are intense and challenging, but with the right approach, you can survive and thrive during the toddler stage. Parenting with an Accent: Through her own stories and interviews with other immigrant families, award-winning journalist Masha Rumer paints a realistic and compassionate picture of what it’s like for immigrant parents raising a child in America while honoring their cultural identities. Parenting with an Accent speaks to immigrant and non-immigrant readers alike, incorporating a diverse collection of voices and experiences to provide an intimate look at the lives of many different immigrant families across the country. With a compelling blend of empirical data, humor, and on-the-ground reportage, Rumer presents interviews with experts on various aspects of parenting as an immigrant, including the challenges of acculturation, bilingualism strategies, and childcare. She visits a children’s Amharic class at an Ethiopian church in New York, a California vegetable farm, a Persian immersion school, and more. Through these stories, she opens a window to a world of parenting unique to multicultural families. Immigrant readers will appreciate Rumer’s gentle message about the kind of ethnic and cultural ambivalence that is born of having roots planted in many different soils, while in these pages non-immigrants get a fly-on-the-wall view of the unique experiences of newcomers. Deeply researched yet personal, Parenting with an Accent centers immigrants and their experiences in a new country—emphasizing how immigrants and their children remain an integral part of America’s story. About the Authors: Erin Eileen Leigh is the author of Secrets to Surviving the Toddler Years (2026) and Navigating the Newborn Months and Beyond (2022), a finalist for the IAN Book of the Year Awards. She is a contributing writer for Her View From Home, Motherly, and BabyCenter. A former attorney and mother of four, Erin also coaches middle school cross country and track & field. Masha Rumer is the author of Parenting with an Accent (Beacon Press), winner of the 2023 Sarton Award for Nonfiction. Her writing about immigrant identity and parenting has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Literary Hub, Newsweek, and elsewhere. Her newspaper reporting has won awards from the New York Press Association. She is currently working on her first novel.