The Big Book of Butts

by Eva Manzano, Emilio Urberuaga (Illustrator)

Overview

Did you know that sea cucumbers use their butts to breathe? Or that the famous red butts of mandrills help them see each other in the jungle?

Butts are used for breathing, eating, swimming and even talking and they come in all shapes, sizes and colors  (some are even multi-colored!).
Learn fun facts about your own bottom and those in the animal kingdom in this hilarious book of butts!

También disponible en español. (Also available in Spanish.)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788419607218
Publisher:	NubeOcho
Publication date:	09/05/2023
Series:	Somos8
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	12.50(w) x 10.25(h) x (d)
Lexile:	830L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Eva Manzano was born in Madrid, where she lives and works. She has a degree in Fine Arts. She alternates between plastic arts, writing and teaching creative workshops. She thinks of herself as a painter who writes stories, although sometimes she thinks she's a walking story. She likes to chase the imagination and she is always on the trail of it. She won the LiberisLiber prize for her book Mitos nórdicos in 2018. Some of her books have been translated into Turkish and Chinese.

Emilio Urberuaga is one of the most international Spanish artists. He has been awarded with the National Award of Illustration from Spain, CCEI Award of Illustration and Selected by the White Ravens Awards. He has a very personal style that has brought to life an endless amount of endearing characters, such as Carlota for Carlota Wouldn't Say Boo or Gilda for Giant Sheep.

Editorial Reviews

Let’s just say it might be a most popular title with a certain age-level of child out there. Justifiably so. – School Library Journal. A Fuse 8 Production. 

Most of the book highlights the importance of glutes in the animal kingdom, especially how they incorporate the senses, from the mandrills’ red behinds, which help them stick together in the jungle, to the herrings’ ultrasonic farts (a sound only they can hear), which help orient them into groups. At the heart of the book, however, is body positivity, emphasized through a range of butt sizes and shapes. – Booklist

Cheeky fun, with bits of solid matter. (Informational picture book. 5-7) – Kirkus Reviews.

Expressive, anthropomorphized butts of different colors serve as guides throughout this big book of butt facts. The breezy, conversational tone complements the text, which begins with a brief evolution of butts, including how the development of mouths and butts led to larger, more intelligent life. – Booklist Back(side)list: Butts Are Where It's At

From the Publisher

2023-09-09
A breezy disquisition on a fundamental topic.

Manzano opens with a broad survey of human bottoms (“Every butt has its own personality. Some might be quite shy, while others are quite bold”). She goes on to probe the overall evolution of anuses from the Cambrian period on, as well as the glorious variety of colors, shapes, and functions enjoyed by the posteriors of modern creatures of land and sea. Giraffes place their necks on their “speckled butts” before going to sleep, while the Papilio xuthus butterfly has photoreceptors on its butt. Most memorably, she explains how animal butts send and receive messages using each of the five senses—or four, anyway: “Actually, you know what? Let’s skip taste. Ick!” Urberuaga has chosen to illustrate these easily grasped scientific observations (translated from Spanish by Ross) in a comical way, with cartoon figures of humans in diverse arrays of skin hue and body type, bare or sporting loudly decorated underwear, alternating with either detached butts endowed with faces and stick limbs or fanny-flashing wildlife from mandrills and manatees to dogs and sea slugs. “No two butts are alike,” Manzano concludes, but they all “love to dance.” Readers will have no trouble getting…behind that.

Cheeky fun, with bits of solid matter. (Informational picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews