No One Likes a Fart

by Zoë Foster Blake, Adam Nickel (Illustrator)

Overview

Fart is desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart — not even a fart with a heart. With plenty of laughs and even more heart, this delightful picture book shows that even the smelliest among us can find a friend in this world.

It's hard out there for a fart. Too smelly. Too embarassing. Too gross. Striking the perfect balance of gross-out humor, wit, and heart, this beautifully illustrated picture book delivers a message of accepting yourself and finding a friend who loves you just the way you are.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524791896
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	01/14/2020
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
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 titles such as Cosmopolitan, Harper's BAZAAR, and Sunday Style, as well as being 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. She lives in Melbourne, 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

2019-07-24
The trials and tribulations of a toot.

"Fart slipped out silently, invisibly, when no one was paying attention." It was Dad who let out the little brown cloud with an expressive face. His family is offended by the odor. "If you were stuck in there you'd want out, too!" says Dad. The little fart thinks he better move on; he would like to make friends. He glides into a room where a boy and dog play. The boy smells Fart and blames the dog. No friends here. Next Fart flies by a mother and infant out for a run—but the mom thinks the baby's diaper's full. No friends here either. Fart travels past two kids on a bench (who blame an old man) and then onto a bus where three different kids all blame one another. Finally Fart realizes he is the one repelling all of these would-be friends. He sadly drifts through a cafe (offending everyone) and out into the alley—where he meets a purple burp. And the two are stinky (and happy) together. This story of the thunder down under (from Down Under) doesn't totally stink; it's an adequate tale of self-acceptance and finding your people. Blake's trouser-trumpet text's a bit wordy, and there are few giggles beyond the initial laugh at the anthropomorphized gas cloud with spindly arms and legs. Nickel's cartoon illustrations appear a bit retro and lean toward the browner hues.

Only for settings in desperate need of another fart book. (Picture book. 3-8)

Kirkus Reviews