Having enjoyed a very positive response to my previous post about Poop–A Natural History of the Unmentionable, I knew as soon as I came across it while checking in returns this afternoon that I would have to blog about The Gas We Pass– The Story of Farts.
No polite grown up language like “flatulence” in this Easy Non Fiction book. Shinta Cho writes frankly and tastefully about the how’s and why’s of passing gas in a very cutely illustrated volume that would surely have a classroom of kindergarteners giggling madly in no time at all. I’m certain the kids will love it and refrain from Highly Recommending it only because I don’t want their parents to blame me when the kids won’t stop making fart noises and jokes long after the cute value of it has passed for the adults in the room.
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December 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 pm
This and some other titles in this series have been prominently displayed in the window of Kramer’s bookstore for as long as I’ve lived in DC (over ten years), so it has a certain pleasing familiarity about it. My son was past this stage by the time we got here, so we never got or read it.
A bit earlier, though, was a book in German (whether originally or not, I don’t know), about a mole going around trying to figure out who had pooped on his head. Gotta love the three-year-old experience.
December 4th, 2007 at 6:54 am
Well I think my nephews would love this
So are you settling into your new home comfortably? I am wrestling with making the move or not.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:47 am
My sister-in-law might hurt me but my brother would be highly amused if I bought this for my niece and nephew. Oh heck! Kris loves me. She won’t hurt me.
Love your new blog! It’s very attractive, and more readable than the Blogger one.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Hi Alan. Just a quick note to say I’ve updated my blogroll with your new address. Best wishes, Jim
December 4th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Hi Alan! To get here, I think I followed a link from a comment you made on my blog regarding the Blogger fiasco. Thanks for that! I thought you were on Blogspot, though, from reading your comments on BlogCatalog. Although the link from there is to a different site, I think you are the same Alan? Then again, I may be just easily confused this morning. :-0
I do think these books would be a gas under any adolescent boy’s Christmas tree!
-Will
December 4th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Many thanks to all of you for commenting.
Claire–
I am not fully settled in over here yet, but it was MUCH easier than I anticipated and I am sure I will have the site back up to snuff before too long.
Will–
You are so right about JD being Incredibly helpful. I would never have gotten this site up at all let alone so quickly without his generously given expert existence
Jim,
Thanks so much for updating your blogroll. I hope that I will not lose any regular visitors due to switching, though I suppose it’s inevitable I will
ASAP I will be updating my blogroll on here to include all of you. Thanks again for being my first day commenters on WP
December 4th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Love the new digs! I think you’ll be happier now that you’ve switched to WordPress. Best of luck!
December 9th, 2007 at 10:42 am
LOL..my son would get a kick out of this book. He has a learning disability and is not fond of reading. I spend alot of time helping him finds books he might like to read. I bet this one would be right up his alley.
December 15th, 2007 at 9:01 am
OK, I’ll admit it. I’d be the one getting a kick out of this book! My husband says the greatest joke God ever played on humanity was to make it so noises come out of our butts. Just think hard about that. Farts are funny. If their only purpose was to allow air out of our bodies, we’d only be burping. Farts are a bonus to make us laugh.
December 16th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
OK, guys, if you liked the book, here the science project where it helps save the world, more or less:
http://ivorhartmann.blogspot.com/2007/12/human-biogas-solution-whose-time-has.html
as discussed on
http://greenchemistry.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/so-whats-so-bad-about-corn/#comments
Comments are heating up all over the place, just like the planet! Best wishes to Alan and all,
Jim
January 27th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
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