https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/b...ce-author.html

By SAM ROBERTS
JAN. 24, 2017

First paragraphs:

Vicki Lansky, a best-selling author who dispensed recipes and practical advice that helped a generation of parents cope with child-rearing challenges and housekeeping, from cradle cap to divorce, died on Jan. 15 at her home in Plymouth, Minn. She was 75.

The cause was nonalcoholic cirrhosis, her husband, Stephen Schaefer, said.

Ms. Lanskys path to publishing was serendipitous, but she churned out more than 30 books, wrote newspaper and magazine columns and produced a newsletter. She championed natural, do-it-yourself versions of store-bought baby food and more healthful alternatives to sugary snacks, and offered homespun counseling drawn from her experience.

Her first book, €œFeed Me Im Yours,€� began inauspiciously as an anthology of favorite recipes that she organized with several neighbors in 1974 as a stay-at-home new mother. The collection was intended to raise money for the Minneapolis chapter of the Childbirth Education Association, which advocates family-centered maternity care. Later published widely, the book sold millions of copies.

€œI think my mother would be astonished to know that I gave out cleaning and household advice to millions of people for nine years as a columnist for Family Circle magazine,€� Ms. Lansky wrote in The Huffington Post. €œAfter all, she €” not I €” had made a career of homemaking.€�

Instead, Ms. Lansky carved out a career of sharing practical advice.

She followed her first book with €œTaming of the C.A.N.D.Y. (Continuously Advertised Nutritionally Deficient Yummies)," which ranked No. 1 on The New York Timess trade paperback best-seller list for a week in 1978, and €œPractical Parenting Tips for the First Five Years.€�

€œMy books work for the same reasons that support groups do,€� she once said.

Vicki Lee Rogosin was born on Jan. 6, 1942, in Louisville, Ky., to Arthur Rogosin, a garment industry executive, and the former Mary Kaplan. She was raised in suburban Mount Vernon and graduated from Connecticut College in New London...

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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..._Yours_Revised
(reader reviews of "Feed Me I'm Yours")

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/vicki-lansky
(article by Lansky)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Lansky
(includes plenty of titles)

Excerpts:

....Her children/parent read-together books include KoKo Bear's New Potty, A New Baby at KoKo Bear's House, KoKo Bear and the New Babysitter, and KoKo Bear's Big Earache, which last helps children prepare for ear tube surgery. Lansky later self-published these titles through Book Peddlers, which she established to distribute her own titles as well as those by others...

....Her companion children's book, It's Not Your Fault, KoKo Bear, is intended for children 3€“7 years coping with divorce. And in the midst of the Beanie Baby frenzy of that time, Lansky created KoKo Bear: the Divorce Doll for Kids. Lansky was interviewed by Meredith Vieira on The View, where she introduced the KoKo Bear doll to a national audience. KoKo Bear comes with a small backpack which encourages children to write down their worries and stuff them into the backpack so that KoKo Bear€”not the children€”can carry them...

https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=koko+bear
(reviews of "Koko Bear" books)

https://www.goodreads.com/author/sho...om_search=true
(reviews of her other books)

https://www.google.com/search?q=vick...l_AK8Q_AUIBigB
(book covers)



Lenona.

On 1/26/2017 8:20 PM, wrote:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/b...ce-author.html
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Sorry to hear she's dead, too bad I've never heard of her.

Jill