Butt Book

by Artie Bennett, Mike Lester (Illustrator)

Overview

Tall butts, short butts, round butts, flat butts.

Butts on mummies and butts on mommies.

Butts on giraffes and elephants and dogs and... FISH?

Yes, even fish butts are celebrated in this tribute to backsides, rumps, tushies, keisters, heinies, and derrieres. Dozens of funny rhymes and pages of laugh-out-loud pictures pay homage to a body part that keeps kids and grown-ups giggling with glee.

Bottoms up!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599903118
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	12/22/2009
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

Artie Bennett is the executive copy editor for Random House Children's Books and he writes a little on the side (but not on the backside!). He's the co-author of 101 Ways to Say Vomit, for those who enjoy a good "gag," and the author of The Dinosaur Joke Book: A Compendium of Pre-Hysteric Puns. He enjoys the three B's: birdwatching, botanizing, and bike riding. He's been butt-besotted since stumbling upon the word "callipygian" at age three. He lives with his wife, Leah, in the bowels of Brooklyn.
You can learn markedly more than you'd wish to know about the author by visiting www.artiebennett.com

Mike Lester is an artist/animator whose books include his own A is for Salad and Erica Perl's Ninety-Three in my Family, both of which won the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award for Best Book Illustrations. He lives with his family in Rome, GA.

You can visit him online at www.mikelester.com

Editorial Reviews

Energetic, amusing, . . . tasteful, and the verse is reliably and rewardingly silly.” - BCCB

“Good-natured hymn of praise to rear ends in all their variety. . . . There are plenty of laughs here and not a single snigger as the matter-of-fact tone keeps the momentum moving right along.” - The Horn Book

“On target for the intended audience. . . . The lively and slick cartoons, done in scratchboard and watercolor, suit the subject matter.” - School Library Journal

“Rhyming couplets invite readers to regard animal butts and human ones, historical butts and modern ones, plain old American butts and exotic foreign ones. . . . Energetic watercolor-and-scratchboard illustrations.” - Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

A genial red-haired boy with an enquiring mind guides us through this good-natured hymn of praise to rear ends in all their variety. Rhyming couplets cover butt synonyms, characteristics, and raison d'être, as watercolor and scratchboard illustrations place us in scenes from art galleries to ancient Egypt to a fun fair. The text includes a few nods to natural history ("Patches found on baboon rumps / help them when they sit on stumps") or international usage ("In England, where they call moms 'mums,' / people call their buttocks 'bums'"), but the major point seems to be that butts make the whole world one. (Well, with the exception of snakes.) There are plenty of laughs here and not a single snigger as the matter-of-fact tone keeps the momentum moving right along. "Why do we have butts? Perchance, / a place to place our underpants?

Horn Book

The text rattles on for a little too long without any particularly conclusive destination, but it's energetic, amusing, and yet largely tasteful, and the verse is reliably and rewardingly silly. Goofily drafted scratchboard figures, with a geometric regularity to the hatchwork that suggests linocuts, are tinted with softly regular shades that emphasize flesh tones and fanciful animal hues. Uses this for revving up the silliness anytime, or for bringing a health and anatomy lesson to a satisfyingly comic end.

The Bulletin