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Yuck's Robotic Bottom
Yuck gets a super-size gift delivered - and a yucky surprise!
112 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2009
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Matt and Dave
19 books4 followersMatthew Morgan (Matt) and David Sinden (Dave) co-developed and wrote the YUCK stories. They're lifelong friends who met at a primary school sports day and grew up in Kent. Matt and Dave both worked in children's publishing before turning to fulltime writing. They also write AN AWFULLY BEASTLY BUSINESS series with their friend Guy MacDonald.
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March 5, 2015
This book was cute.....kinda. Yuck and his sister are pretty mean to one another, and there doesn't seem to be much of a point or lesson to the stories in this book other than cheaters win in the end with pranks.
My son liked the book, paid pretty close attention and read it fairly easily which is fantastic, I just wasn't impressed.
My son liked the book, paid pretty close attention and read it fairly easily which is fantastic, I just wasn't impressed.
July 15, 2015
I can see many of my younger students loving this book. It is utterly disgusting.
January 28, 2018
This was a book I read with my son as reading practice for him.
Whilst he enjoyed the two stories very much, and read them well, remaining interested and engaged with the stories, I did find them derivative and perpetuating the age-old division between boys and girls. Yuck and his friend Little Eric are adventurous types, in other words typical boys. Yuck's sister Polly Princess (yes, really) and her friend Juicy Lucy (sigh) are portrayed as annoying little girls who like to play with dolls and all things girly. They must be got rid of at the first opportunity. They were portrayed as irritating, prissy and silly and were there as the butt of Yuck and Eric's devious plots.
At least with Horrid Henry there is a reasonable amount of equality between the boy and girl characters. They're far from perfect but I prefer them to this. Not impressed by the social conditioning towards girls being taught to young boys here. I know I'm not the target audience for this book but, as a parent of a boy and a girl I like to see more encouragement of equality and positivity rather then reinforcement of outdated sexist attitudes. Rant over :-)
Whilst he enjoyed the two stories very much, and read them well, remaining interested and engaged with the stories, I did find them derivative and perpetuating the age-old division between boys and girls. Yuck and his friend Little Eric are adventurous types, in other words typical boys. Yuck's sister Polly Princess (yes, really) and her friend Juicy Lucy (sigh) are portrayed as annoying little girls who like to play with dolls and all things girly. They must be got rid of at the first opportunity. They were portrayed as irritating, prissy and silly and were there as the butt of Yuck and Eric's devious plots.
At least with Horrid Henry there is a reasonable amount of equality between the boy and girl characters. They're far from perfect but I prefer them to this. Not impressed by the social conditioning towards girls being taught to young boys here. I know I'm not the target audience for this book but, as a parent of a boy and a girl I like to see more encouragement of equality and positivity rather then reinforcement of outdated sexist attitudes. Rant over :-)
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