Poo Bum

by Stephanie Blake

Overview

Once there was a little rabbit who could only say one thing . . . In the morning his mother would say, "Time to get up, my little rabbit!" He'd reply: "Poo bum!" At lunchtime his father would say, "Eat your spinach, my little rabbit!" He'd reply: "Poo bum!" One day, he meets a hungry wolf. Will the little rabbit learn his lesson once and for all?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781877467967
Publisher:	Gecko Press
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,226,260
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 11.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 8 Years

About the Author

Stephanie Blake was born in Minnesota and lives in Paris. She is the author and illustrator of dozens of highly successful picture books, many of them children's favorites.

Stephanie Blake was born in Minnesota and lives in Paris. She is the author and illustrator of dozens of highly successful picture books, many of them children's favorites.

Editorial Reviews

"Saturated colors, thick black outlines, and cartoonish faces bring a vibrant energy to Blake's uncouth tale. A young white rabbit with an insouciant twinkle responds to every conversation with the words 'poo bum,' right up until the moment he gets eaten by a green wolf. The snack doesn't agree with the wolf and the doctor—little Poo Bum's father—retrieves the wee pottymouth, who responds to the ordeal by speaking with ornate eloquence, until switching to the word 'fart.' Full-bleed spreads in gloriously bright colors are paired with a large, bold font for a visual experience that lends itself to a read-aloud. As a story, the text relies on the peculiar joy of hearing gross words, which won't appeal to everyone. VERDICT A slight but lively book, which will delight readers who want to repeat 'fart' and 'poo' for the rest of the day."—School Library Journal

From the Publisher

03/13/2020

PreS-Gr 1—Saturated colors, thick black outlines, and cartoonish faces bring a vibrant energy to Blake's uncouth tale. A young white rabbit with an insouciant twinkle responds to every conversation with the words "poo bum," right up until the moment he gets eaten by a green wolf. The snack doesn't agree with the wolf and the doctor—little Poo Bum's father—retrieves the wee pottymouth, who responds to the ordeal by speaking with ornate eloquence, until switching to the word "fart." Full-bleed spreads in gloriously bright colors are paired with a large, bold font for a visual experience that lends itself to a read-aloud. As a story, the text relies on the peculiar joy of hearing gross words, which won't appeal to everyone. VERDICT A slight but lively book, which will delight readers who want to repeat "fart" and "poo" for the rest of the day.—Robbin E. Friedman, Chappaqua Library, NY

School Library Journal

2019-12-08
An encounter with a wolf has remarkable effects on the vocabulary of a snarky little bunny.

In what amounts to a remake of Maurice Sendak's Pierre with cruder language and an all-animal cast, an anthropomorphic rabbit responds to every request with the titular phrase—including a wolf's "May I eat you?" Down the hatch goes the lippy lapin, and now the wolf's only words are "Poo bum." This signals the wolf's villainy to the rabbit doctor summoned to help, and he proceeds to reach down his patient's gullet and pull out his "little poo bum!" "Good heavens, Father! How dare you call me that? You know perfectly well my name is Simon." The pithy narrative's heavy typeface accords well with both the level of humor and the illustrations' thick, simply drawn lines and broad swathes of opaque primary hues. Originally published in 2011 in New Zealand (and much reprinted since), the episode first appeared on this continent in 2015 (from another publisher) as Poop-di-doop!—a version of the delightfully daring epithet that American audiences may find more immediately appealing than the original. At least the closing twist, in which the rabbit returns to form with "Fart!" in response to a parental order to brush his teeth, requires no translation.

Not quite the crowd pleaser that it could be. (Picture book. 3-5)

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