Don't Say Poop!

by Jimmy Matejek-Morris, Fred Blunt (Illustrator)

Overview

Everyone Poops meets The Book with No Pictures in this irresistibly naughty read-aloud. When you get the urge to say you-know-what, don't. DON'T SAY POOP!

Why say a vile word like poop when you could say humdrum bum crumbs, float-or-sinker, major stinker, sometimes mushy from your tushy, or smelly belly funky jelly. See how much nicer that is?

This silly book of tongue twisters will have kids doubled over as they learn some alternatives to their favorite potty words. Perfect for reading aloud, and for reading again and again!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780358423331
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	04/20/2021
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Jimmy Matejek-Morris is a Young Adult and Middle Grade author and screenwriter. His pieces often explore the boundary between fantasy and reality, complex family dynamics, and LGBTQ inclusivity. Jimmy has a BA in Film Studies and English from Cornell University and an MFA in Writing for Children from Simmons College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his husband, Scott, and very well-dressed dog, Rudy.

When he is not writing, he enjoys watching anything with the Muppets, collecting action figures, drinking hot chocolate, and chasing Rudy around with a camera.

Humour has always been top of Fred Blunt’s list when it comes to drawing. Right from those early (rather unflattering) portraits of teachers, he knew he wanted to entertain with his work. Now writing and illustrating his own, very silly picture books – Fred couldn’t be happier. He lives in Wiltshire, with his wife, two children and their retired Greyhound, Olive.
 

Editorial Reviews

"Chaotically comic... remind[s] readers that bathroom humor and its ilk can be good clean fun."—Publishers Weekly "A cumulative barrage of words that readers will be hard-pressed to say without dissolving into giggles."—Kirkus Reviews —

From the Publisher

2021-03-02
Silly, rhyming euphemisms to jazz up powder-room humor.

Matejek-Morris shows remarkable wordsmithing skill in his laugh-out-loud lines of text. The narrator is depicted as a child who opens the book with a warning: “There are nice words like puppy and buttercup and snickerdoodle, and there are rude words.” To help readers avoid saying rude words, the child then delivers a torrent of tongue-twisting, rhyming euphemisms for poop, pee, burp, belch, butt, boogers, and farts. For the titular rude word, for instance, readers could substitute “humdrum bum crumbs, / float-or-sinker, / major stinker, / sometimes mushy from your tushy, / smelly belly funky jelly.” It all culminates in a cumulative barrage of words that readers will be hard-pressed to say without dissolving into giggles—unless they are distracted and dismayed by some truly unfortunate visual characterization. The protagonist is depicted as a brown-skinned person with black, curly hair. Color associations in the cover art and some interior pages may cause the eye to link the shade of the character’s skin with the anthropomorphized turds that appear along with the aforementioned euphemisms. If that weren’t bad enough, when the cumulative text arrives, it’s presented as a grinning (and farting, urinating, defecating, belching, nose-picking) tap-dancing spectacle that evokes caricatures of minstrelsy. (This book was reviewed digitally with 8-by-14-inch double-page spreads viewed at 50.1% of actual size.)

Just…don’t. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews