No One Likes a Burp

by Zoë Foster Blake, Adam Nickel (Illustrator)

Overview

From the author of No One Likes a Fart comes a hilarious companion picture book that highlights the adventures of Burp and her friend Fart as they help others and learn that kindness can overcome first impressions.

Burp loves wafting around the world. But everywhere she goes, people don’t seem to like her! So, Burp has an idea: she’s going to team up with her best friend, Fart, and they’re going to become Superstinkers and help others in trouble!

With laugh-out-loud text from Zoë Foster Blake and engaging illustrations by Adam Nickel, readers will see that anyone can become a hero and save the day!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593753484
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/21/2024
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Zoë Foster Blake is an Australian author, columnist, magazine editor, and cosmetics entrepreneur. She's worked for over a decade in journalism, writing for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Harper's BAZAAR, and Sunday Style, and is the founder of all-natural Australian skin-care line Go-To. Zoë has written four novels -- Air Kisses, Playing the Field, The Younger Man, and The Wrong Girl -- and a dating and relationship book Textbook Romance, written in conjunction with Hamish Blake. Her first picture book, No One Likes a Fart, was the winner of Children's Picture Book of the Year in the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards. She lives in Springfield, Australia.

Adam Nickel is an illustrator whose client list includes The Daily Telegraph, The Boston Globe, and New Scientist. He lives in Brisbane, Australia, and spends his spare time working on old things that have wheels on them, or at least staring at them on the Internet.

Editorial Reviews

2024-02-17
Gassy friends save the day in this follow-up to No One Likes a Fart (2019).

BFFs Burp and Fart—clouds rendered, respectively, in hues of purple and brown—float about, offending everyone with their pungent odors. Burp begins to feel bad about that, so she rolls around in flower petals. That doesn’t help; a young couple still turn up their noses when she wafts by. On her way back to Fart, Burp’s smell drives off some bullies who are tormenting a smaller girl. Burp tells Fart about it, and they decide to don capes and become superheroes. When they see a crook (wearing a mask and a black-and-white outfit) stealing a car, they float into the car and stink him out. They continue to do super-stinky good deeds until they find a kindergarten in danger of being crushed by a falling tree in a storm. They try to evacuate the building, but they aren’t stinky enough. (The kids and teachers have smelled far worse.) Fart has a great idea: Get Sewage Gas to help. Sewie, who inexplicably speaks in broken English, gets everyone to leave and saves the day. Blake’s forced, flat fable of flatulence won’t inspire much tittering beyond the first toot. Nickel’s illustrations of humans of varying skin tones resemble Saturday morning cartoons, but the speech bubbles, full of attempted potty humor, add little. Most readers will wish this Australian import had stayed Down Under like the emissions that inspired it.

An unnecessary stink-quel. (Picture book. 2-6)

Kirkus Reviews