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What a Blast!: Fart Games, Fart Puzzles, Fart Pranks, and More Farts!
Squeakers, butt puffs, trumpets and “the destroyer”. Celebrate farts in all their hilarious, honking glory!
Con-fart-ulations! You’ve found the book that confirms your fine appreciation for the fact that nothings funnier than a little pfffftt from someone’s butt. Cheerfully over-the-top, packed with activities, and grounded in the science of flatulence, What a Blast! Is a trip through the body’s digestive system to explore the whys, hows, and wherefores of farting. You’ll discover the fartiest food in the world, meet infamous farters from history, learn just what to say if you fart in public—“Yeah, you heard me!—and so much more!
Have fun with farts!
Con-fart-ulations! You’ve found the book that confirms your fine appreciation for the fact that nothings funnier than a little pfffftt from someone’s butt. Cheerfully over-the-top, packed with activities, and grounded in the science of flatulence, What a Blast! Is a trip through the body’s digestive system to explore the whys, hows, and wherefores of farting. You’ll discover the fartiest food in the world, meet infamous farters from history, learn just what to say if you fart in public—“Yeah, you heard me!—and so much more!
Have fun with farts!
112 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
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Julie Winterbottom
10 books11 followersJulie Winterbottom is the author of the picture book biography Magic in a Drop of Water: How Ruth Patrick Taught the World about Pollution. The former editor-in-chief of Nickelodeon Magazine, she has also written the middle grade humor books Pranklopedia and What a Blast! She lives on the shores of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Visit her at juliewinterbottom.com.
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December 13, 2022
This activity book is filled with silly jokes and games, and also weaves in scientific and historical facts. Kids who enjoy potty humor will delight in the quizzes, fill-in-the-blank stories, word-searches, and fun facts. The book has a nice balance between gross-out humor and educational content, and is genuinely clever enough that even audiences who don't usually go for potty humor (like me!) can still find this funny and enjoyable.
The book is over a hundred pages long, and there is enough material here to entertain kids for a long time. This would be a great gift to a child who enjoys gross-out humor, would be entertaining on a road trip, and would be a fun gag gift for adults.
My main critique is that in the scientific sections, the author talked as if any variance in the volume and intensity of gas-passing is random and fine, depending on the person, without making it clear that excessive flatulence can be a sign of a medical problem and/or bacterial overgrowth. Sure, the focus here is on being silly, but since she included so much scientific information, I think it would have been appropriate for her to mention health problems associated with this instead of just making it sound like whatever anyone experiences is normal.
I received a free copy from the publisher through Amazon Vine in exchange for an honest review.
The book is over a hundred pages long, and there is enough material here to entertain kids for a long time. This would be a great gift to a child who enjoys gross-out humor, would be entertaining on a road trip, and would be a fun gag gift for adults.
My main critique is that in the scientific sections, the author talked as if any variance in the volume and intensity of gas-passing is random and fine, depending on the person, without making it clear that excessive flatulence can be a sign of a medical problem and/or bacterial overgrowth. Sure, the focus here is on being silly, but since she included so much scientific information, I think it would have been appropriate for her to mention health problems associated with this instead of just making it sound like whatever anyone experiences is normal.
I received a free copy from the publisher through Amazon Vine in exchange for an honest review.
November 22, 2023
How do you get your kid to learn the scientific method? Write a haiku? Learn the parts of a sentence? Follow a recipe? Have them learn by focusing them on farts. I loved this. Even the most prudish among us (my Mom) will get a laugh out of this. Lots of fart jokes and interesting historical facts (like who was the first person to fart on the moon).
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