Adhesive tape tends to get sticky and tangled, milk can spill, and toast sometimes burns. Chewing gum likes to slip down your throat, marker ink often bleeds through paper and stains the table, straws get lost in juice, ice cream melts, and socks like to explore the back of the washing machine. You get invited to a birthday party and forget the present, the toilet paper runs out when you need it most, the hairdresser gives you a really short haircut, it starts to rain and you don't have an umbrella…

We all experience similar tragedies. This guide, the first of two volumes that have sold over half a million copies in Japan and are only now beginning to be translated in the West, compiles them according to their level of danger and frequency, and offers strategies for overcoming them successfully and with a good laugh. It's easy to memorize, and the more apprehensive readers can keep it handy. In any case, we can now stop worrying about the petty miseries of everyday life.

18 × 20.5 cm

56 pages

Ages 5 and up