Runaway Booger

by Matt Richtel, Lee Wildish (Illustrator)

Overview

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait . . . it’s a runaway booger!

From Lee Wildish, acclaimed children’s book illustrator of the New York Times bestselling How to Babysit a Grandpa, How to Babysit a Grandma, and How to Catch Santa, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matt Richtel comes a hilarious new picture book about a topsy-turvy day with an unlikely and disgusting turn of events.

Like such silly favorites as Walter the Farting Dog, Runaway Booger will spark giggles and demands to read it again.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062349842
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	01/10/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Matt Richtel is a reporter at the New York Times. He received the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for a series of articles about distracted driving that he expanded into his first nonfiction book, A Deadly Wandering, a New York Times bestseller. His second nonfiction book, An Elegant Defense, on the human immune system, was a national bestseller and chosen by Bill Gates for his annual Summer Reading List. Richtel has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air, CBS This Morning, PBS NewsHour, and other major media outlets. He lives in San Francisco, California.

Lee Wildish became interested in art at a very young age. He is the illustrator of many acclaimed children’s books, including the New York Times bestelling How To . . . series, with How to Babysit a Grandpa, How to Babysit a Grandma, and How to Surprise a Dad, written by Jean Reagan. He has also worked in advertising and greeting card design. Lee lives in Nottinghamshire, England. Visit him on the web at www.wildishillustration.com.

Editorial Reviews

Aug. 30, 2016
While Mom’s away, Dad and the kids will play.Following reminders not to pick their noses or play ball in the house, hardly is Mom out the door before the narrator, his sister, and Dad pull out industrial quantities of green goo, shape it into a massive ball, break a vase (“ ‘She’ll kill us,’ Dad shrieked”) and—uh oh, there it goes out the window. “ ‘It’s heading to town,’ I yelled. ‘Quick, get your bikes.’ / But our slippery snot-rocket was leaving our sight.” Having picked up pets, underwear, and miscellaneous litter on its way, the giga-greenie reaches town, where Mom (of course) is waiting to swat it into outer space with a big stick. She gets a Booger Blaster medal, and all is forgiven. Young audiences might forgive Richtel’s cavalier attitude toward rhyme and regular metrics, but after a promisingly icky prefatory table of booger types, Wildish turns in a lackluster loogie that looks more like papier-mâché or a boulder-sized, oddly colored meatball than anything truly worth gagging at. And do readers really need yet another doofus dad? A “postman” and two other figures are brown-skinned in an otherwise all-white cast. Gourmets of all things gross will sniff at this. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Review