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.
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
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