Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble At the Yard Sale

by William Kotzwinkle, Glenn Murray, Audrey Colman (Illustrator)

Overview

Walter's family is holding a yard sale, but there are few customers. Walter, fartingcontentedly near Father, wonders why. When a man offers ten dollars for Walter, Father readily agrees. Walter wonders why. Walter is sad to leave his family behind, but relieved to discover that his new owner is a clown. Walter figures he will help the clown bring joy to children on their birthdays. But the clown has a dastardly plot: he will use Walter's gas to inflate balloons and then pop them to stun guards during bank robberies. Will Walter turn to the dark side? Of course not! He comes out a hero and is reunited with his family by doing what he does best.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142406267
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/04/2006
Series:	Walter the Farting Dog Series , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	193,921
Product dimensions:	10.75(w) x 9.75(h) x 0.13(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

William Kotzwinkle is the author of such enduring classics as The Fan Man, Fata Morgana, and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. His novel, The Game of Thirty, was hailed by Stephen King as “top-level entertainment . . . a suspense novel to rank with the classics of the genre.” Mr. Kotzwinkle lives with his wife, writer Elizabeth Gundy, on an island off the Maine coast.

Glenn Murray is an author known for his work on the HILARIOUS Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books.

Audrey Colman is an author known for her work in the Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books.

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
Walter, the rootin'-tootin' pooch of bestselling fame, becomes an unwitting accomplice to a bank robber in this hilariously malodorous misadventure.

Walter's family is having a yard sale; but when nobody shows up, Father begins slashing prices. Then a kooky-looking gentleman offers to buy their gassy dog, and Father is only too happy to give him a good deal. Unfortunately, no one knows that this mysterious dog lover is actually a crook who intends to use Walter as a secret weapon for securing ill-gotten gains: He plans to fill balloons with Walter's foul air, then pop them to knock out security guards and bank customers! However, Walter catches "wind" of his new owner's foul plans, and after a cigar-meets-fart explosion, Walter makes his break and brings the police straight to the robber's hideout.

Featuring more of Audrey Colman's zany artwork, this sublimely smelly sequel definitely cuts the cheese -- er, mustard. Young readers will howl at scenes of wide-eyed Walter hooked up to the fart catcher and cross-eyed bank customers keeling over from the burst balloons. Walter's many fans will be holding their breath (and their noses) for more adventures featuring their flatulent friend. Matt Warner

bn.com

This sequel to the bestselling Walter the Farting Dog will please its fans, as the pooch continues to leave an acrid trail, and a clown with a dark side plans to put Walter's talent to use. Ages 5-up. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

PreS-Gr 2-In this second far-fetched tale about Walter, neighbors have been avoiding the yard-sale table where Walter has been sitting all day. Unbelievably, Father wonders why! Yet he doesn't hesitate to sell the pup to the first man who stops by to inquire. The new owner, a clown, intends to use Walter for a bank heist by fastening him to a "fart-catcher" in order to inflate balloons with his obnoxious-smelling gas. As the clown pops the balloons in the bank, customers and bank tellers are overcome with the stench. When the perp arrives home with the sack of money, he lights a cigar and is launched across the room because of a gas leak. Walter runs out the door toward his former home, and the police follow the trail of $100 bills fluttering behind him. As they try to arrest Walter, he leads them back to the real culprit. Pages are busy with digital illustrations that give an olive green pallor to the human skin tone and a garish look to the clown. For those who appreciated the lowbrow, tasteless humor of the first book, this one provides much more of the same.-Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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