STORYBOARD : Tales From The Crib
Illustrator and children's book author Henrik Drescher, and his wife, Lauren, are the proud parents of Sophie, Joachim and Emile (so far). The drawings and text on these pages are excerpted from "Tales from the Crib," which will be published in October, by Harcourt Brace & Co
You are on the verge of procreating. You don’t know why, but you feel a powerful gene current rushing you toward an uncertain destiny. Around you, the air is thick with baby propaganda. Through the rosy haze you wonder: Are kids really just adorable affection factories, or is there an untold sinsister side to childrearing, a dark hell-bound sidestreet that no one dares reveal? Now the truth can be told, the myths can be debunked, the enigmas unraveled--in the true confessions of a shameless procreator.