.Ryan is scared to use the potty. He's afraid to have a poop because he's afraid it's going to hurt. When Ryan's parents take him to visit Dr. Gold, she engages his imagination with the story of Bill the Coyote's messy house. She also shows him what happens inside the body, and explains how different foods make using the potty easy or hard. This story, along with Ryan's "poop program," will help young children gain the confidence they need to overcome this common problem and establish healthy habits.
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.Caca. Poop. Number two. Kids have a thousand names for it. Don’t they want to know where it comes from? The Fantastic Voyage of Señor Caca shows kids the hows and whys.
A smart wolf in a lab coat leads kids on a journey through their digestive system. A little girl eats an apple for a snack (crunch, crunch), and the apple drops into the esophagus (glug, glug) before a stop in the stomach. At each stop along the way the wolf explains in simple scientific terms what the body is doing. After the pit stop in the stomach, what remains of the apple must enter the small intestine (gurgle, gurgle), then the large intestine, and finally . . . well, you know. Hint: It doesn’t smell like roses here.
. Joined at Birth - Conjoined Twins
Grade 4-6. In both titles, Landau presents the material in a straightforward manner along with medical explanations and terminology. Chapters provide historical and modern examples of conjoined twins (Joined at Birth) and dwarfism (Short Stature); medical causes and treatments of the conditions; and questions, concerns, and challenges faced by young people and adults living with these differences. Special terms are printed in bold type and most are explained within the text.
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While the books focus on the differences, Landau adeptly describes how these individuals are like everyone else. Excellent-quality, full-color and black-and-white photographs appear throughout. Fine additions to help children build understanding and acceptance of others.?
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PreSchool-Grade 2–Willy is not good at math but excels at swimming. He and his nemesis, Butch, practice every day for the Great Swimming Race. Finally, armed with goggles, a number, and two maps, he and 300 million other competitors swim madly for the prize–the egg inside Mrs. Browne. Willy is a sperm. All his practicing pays off and he victoriously burrows into the "lovely and soft" egg, which grows and grows in Mrs. Browne's tummy until it becomes a baby girl. But "Where had little Willy gone? Who knows?" However, when little Edna is old enough to start school, she isn't very good at math but she IS very good at swimming.
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This breezy and amusing romp may not resolve those pesky questions about reproduction but it certainly lends personality to the process of fertilization. The double-entendre title is indicative of the cheeky and humorous text, which is lively, well paced, and essentially accurate. The line and watercolor illustrations perfectly suit the irreverent tone and include a lift-the-flap expanded page and a "find Waldo"-style spread. Both sperm and humans are endearingly expressive.
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As to the science, an unclothed Mr. and Mrs. Browne are anatomically correct but the racing map of Mrs. Browne's reproductive system is confusingly vague. Nonetheless, adult readers will be thoroughly entertained and children will be charmed if not completely informed. While a relatively innocuous and engaging piece of sex ed, this title could be a potentially provocative addition to picture-book collections.–
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. I Wish Daddy Didn't Drink So Much
.PreSchool-Grade 2 A Christmas fiasco paves the way for young Lisa to share her feelings and frustrations about the duality of her alcoholic father's behavior, its immediate effect on their holiday celebration, and the long-term effects on her family as well. Skillfully interwoven is family friend Mrs. Field, a recovering alcoholic herself, who provides a somewhat happy ending to a relatively disappointing day. Vigna's familiar pastel watercolor washes provide a soft and gentle vehicle for depiction of both action and emotion.
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Although Kevin Kenny's Sometimes My Mom Drinks Too Much (Raintree, 1980) is the closest book in terms of target group, Vigna still reaches a younger audience in her brevity of text and emotional scope. A note to adults that provides insight into the child's feelings and tips for parents in assisting their child's understanding of the situation is appended. Addresses and telephone numbers are listed for Al-Anon and the Children of Alcoholics Foundation.
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This title is best placed in a parenting collection to facilitate and encourage sharing situations. A realistic portrayal that provides a balanced picture of the sober and alcoholic parent and an early primary age child trying to make sense of it all.
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The Who Cares series helps us to learn about ourselves, our world and our responsibilities, and fosters caring, sharing and loving instincts. 7 1/2" x 7 1/2" For children ages 5-10 years. The recommendation is for kids 5 and over Kids learn what it means to be blind, deaf or mute, or to have something wrong with your brain, etc. That it isn't nice to stare at people with differences, but to just be their friend and it teaches them to be caring people.
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.The chicken is trying to pull a nice, juicy worm out of the ground, but it's not budging. So she enlists the help of the rabbit, but the two of them still can't do it. Soon the whole barnyard is helping her pull, when...This satisfying, circular story with a repetitive refrain will have even the youngest readers wanting to help pull on that stubborn worm! The chicken appears to be in the most compromising position and a bit sexual to many adult readers.
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The coordinator behind a children's coloring book that was pulled from FEMA's Web site last week is standing by her work — despite its controversial cover, which shows a child's drawing of New York's Twin Towers on fire with a plane flying toward them.
"A Scary Thing Happened," a downloadable coloring book designed to help children cope with disaster, was developed by Minnesota's Freeborn County Crisis Response Team following a local tornado in 2003. It was posted on The Smoking Gun Web site after FEMA took it down last week.
Click here to view the coloring book.
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I have had the best laugh I have had all day. Thanks!
Tooooooooooooo funny
Strangers Have the Best Candy
Why Can't Mr. Fork and Ms. Electrical Outlet Be Friends?
You Were An Accident
Weird books but amusing post.
The worm book looks like a variation on the classic story about a turnip. I guess not enough kids know what a turnip is.
I haven't seen any of these before, but they all seem to have a quirky but practical purpose.
Check out Shel Silverstein's books, he's an American author (I live in Australia) and I find his ideas really delightful. The Giving Tree is one, where a tree gives its all to a boy, and then to the man that the boy becomes until the tree is all but gone and yet the tree is happy.
Silverstein also sings a song called Garbage Out: 'Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout/Would not take the garbage out', with hilarious consequences for the neighborhood.
The Standing Up story in your collection reminds me of the remarks of a distant Greek relative when her grandson needed to pee in a Greek village, 'Make a camel on the wall' she said.
I think tomreedtoon has been eating too many lemons.
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What an interesting collection of WEIRD books. rated
They're all pretty funny and totally silly.
I did find one line in there that was descriptive of how up tight "adults" attempt to force their twisted thinking onto children;
"The chicken appears to be in the most compromising position and a bit sexual to many adult readers.'
Now, if an up tight "adult" didn't try to force some innocent kid to see things that way, maybe they wouldn't grow up to be future up tighters.
All in all, it is as I said, a funny collection of comic books.
Someone mentioned that the writers of these books are insane, etc.
I know one who writes these things and, she is one of the weirdest, strangest people I've ever met.
I have read Hiroshima No Pika though. I can attest that it is a very moving book about the bombing of Hiroshima, telling the story of that day from a child's point of view.
I wonder how many of these books they actually sell?
There are many different versions over the years of "10 books lists" of the most bizarre, most troubling, creepiest, scariest and freakiest kids or adult books written and there will be hundreds more versions of these lists.
The majority of them being equally amusing -
Just like any topic thats funny or bizarre or important in the world on every subject you could come up with after a few minutes.
Doesn't mean of them are copying each other - no one owns the intellectual rights for the content to the "funniest" or "most bizarre" or "creepiest" or "most famous" reviews of anything. These are all opinions and occasionally they will be shared to some degree.
This list is meant to make you laugh, smile and shock as well to educate and inform each other on things that make you go hmmm.
When so much of the news is unsettling these days - anything that brings a smile or laughter is a good thing -
I hope you enjoy them as much as I did when I created my list of 12 favorites or in this case most bizarre!
This was obviously a bit of work to put together. Thanks for taking the time. I laughed. I cried. It's better than the NYT Review of Books.
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http://minivanmonologues.blogspot.com/2009/12/worse-than-fruitcake-gaaawwd-awful-gift.html
Also, "It hurts when I poop" isn't funny when you have kid who needs it --like mine.
And since I have seen both of these at Dr's offices, there is a need for them out there, so someone IS buying them.
I don't think most of these books are bizarre at all --any book that helps a kid figure out this insane world is ok by me.