All About Poop

Have you ever wondered all about poop? Why our bodies make such stinky goop? And where does it go after we wipe when the poop is flushed into a pipe? So begins the adventure of an inquisitive little boy and his charming dog as they discover how poop is formed and where it ends up. With humorous rhymes, children learn about the digestive system, septic tanks, sewage plants, and even proper bathroom etiquette. At the end of the book there's a bonus "Five Things to Remember About Poop" page as well as an educational poop trivia. Written by award-winning mum blogger Kate Hayes, this book will delight children (and parents) with its funny, yet educational, take on poop.

About the Author :
Kate Hayes is a former award-winning TV news reporter and anchor. She writes about her family's adventures on her blog, Adventures in Parenting.Me, which earned her a Scholastic Parent and Child magazine Parent Blogger Award in 2010. She was also named one of the BlogHer Voices of the Year in 2011. Brenna Vaughan has a BFA in illustration from Memphis College of Art. She works in a blend of digital and traditional media combining watercolor, acrylic, and ink with digital techniques. Marlo Garnsworthy is an editor, writing teacher, children's author, and illustrator. She has been editing children's books and teaching writing since the late 1990s. She is on faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Continuing Education and teaches various writing and revision workshops. She works in a freelance editorial capacity for a number of small publishers. Her middle-grade chapter book Ginny Giles series was released in 2010, and she is the author of three other published books for children.

Review :
Is there really more to be written on the subject of poop? Everybody Poops established that it's something we all do, but for those who need more information to satisfy their curiosity, enter All About Poop. This picture book takes readers right inside the human intestinal tract, with a young boy and his dog, to see what happens when digestion breaks food down and turns it into ... well, let's assume for the sake of propriety that you know how and where the story ends. No spoiler alerts needed here. Kate Hayes writes with rhyming cadence but manages to get the scientific basics and all-important need for hand-washing in while keeping a beat you can tap-dance to. You're dying for a sample, so here: "Poop comes in a mixture of all shapes and sizes. There are so many possible poop surprises!" And, shuffle-ball-change! Illustrator Brenna Vaughan matches Hayes in both tone and content; she must have used several brown pencils conjuring up poop on the ground, in the toilet, traversing the colon, and even parachuting into a landfill (a "dump," get it?). The boy and his dog are cute and have a sweet hipness about them, and Vaughan's drawing of a group of apartments would be right at home on a greeting card if she erased the pipes running to a municipal sewage plant. Or possibly right at home as-is on a greeting card for a municipal sewage plant employee, a market that's been woefully underserved by Hallmark. Kids do love to explore gross things, and All About Poop doesn't stint on the grossness. It's also funny and informative, and may help cool a youthful obsession by explaining things in terms that are easy to understand. Let's hope for the sake of parents that it isn't requested as often as the greater works of Dr. Seuss, but just enough to get it all out of their little systems, as it were. --Heather Seggel Forward Review