The Butt Book

Description

Get to the bottom of it all with a silly celebration of our funniest body part in this Reuben Award Winner for Best Book Illustration! Tall butts, short butts, round butts, flat butts. Butts on giraffes and elephants and dogs and . . . FISH? Yes, all butts are celebrated in this riotous tribute to backsides, rumps, tushies, heinies, and derrieres. Dozens of hilarious rhymes and pages of laugh-out-loud pictures pay homage to an unsung body part that keeps kids and grown-ups giggling with glee. Bottoms up!

Artie Bennett is the executive copy editor for Random House Children's Books and he writes a little on the side (but not on the backside!). He's the co-author of 101 Ways to Say Vomit, for those who enjoy a good "gag," and the author of The Dinosaur Joke Book: A Compendium of Pre-Hysteric Puns. He enjoys the three B's: birdwatching, botanizing, and bike riding. He's been butt-besotted since stumbling upon the word "callipygian" at age three. He lives with his wife, Leah, in the bowels of Brooklyn. You can learn markedly more than you'd wish to know about the author by visiting www.artiebennett.com Mike Lester is an artist/animator whose books include his own A is for Salad and Erica Perl's Ninety-Three in my Family, both of which won the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award for Best Book Illustrations. He lives with his family in Rome, GA. You can visit him online at www.mikelester.com

Energetic, amusing, . . . tasteful, and the verse is reliably and rewardingly silly. * BCCB * Good-natured hymn of praise to rear ends in all their variety. . . . There are plenty of laughs here and not a single snigger as the matter-of-fact tone keeps the momentum moving right along. * The Horn Book * On target for the intended audience. . . . The lively and slick cartoons, done in scratchboard and watercolor, suit the subject matter. * School Library Journal * Rhyming couplets invite readers to regard animal butts and human ones, historical butts and modern ones, plain old American butts and exotic foreign ones. . . . Energetic watercolor-and-scratchboard illustrations. * Kirkus Reviews *