"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Marge Loch-Wouters, Menasha's Public Library, WIĬopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Even libraries without the first two titles will find this a fun choice for sharing aloud and for tempting independent readers.
Arnold's art manages to keep the gross-out factor reasonable while producing plenty of laughs. The rhyming, which has always been a weak point in the books, is kept to a minimum while the chaos is kept at the previous high level. Created with colored pencils and watercolor washes, the bright, manic artwork features pop-eyed characters drawn with a loose, squiggly line. Along the bottom of the page, his toys illustrate additional figures of speech ("It makes my head spin," "I laughed my head off," "My head is in the clouds"). For example, for "I lost my head," the headless youngster wanders around with arms outstretched looking for his missing body part, which is partially concealed behind a chair. Each page features a phrase that includes an idiom, along with a humorous illustration of the child literally living up to that particular expression. (Sept.Grade 1-3 - The boy from Parts (1997) and More Parts (2001, both Dial) returns. Trying to make sense of one's ""parts"" is a common childhood concern, and Arnold's (No More Water in the Tub!) comical hyperbole will set children at ease about fears they might hesitate to share.
The subject matter, despite its potential to be disgusting, is treated as funny but commonplace. Strands of hair in a comb arouse thoughts of premature baldness ""a chunk of something gray and wet,"" fallen from a nostril, is identified as ""a little piece of brain."" (Attempting to find answers, the young hypochondriac pores over a stack of books on gray matter, including a ""Book of Marbles"" for those losing theirs.) The boy's parents insist that nose goo and flaky skin are normal, but their solemn reassurance is met with a gross punch line: ""Then tell me, what's this yellow stuff I got out of my ear?"" Whimsical cartoons, in warm watercolor hues and texturized with squiggles of colored pencil that resemble the boy's decreasing hairs, show the narrator in the foreground and his worst fantasies in the background. It was/ My stuffing coming out!"" Each discovery increases the narrator's anxiety. ""I stared at it, amazed, and wondered,/ What's this all about?/ But then I understood. In this humorously askew look at the body, belly-button lint leads a five-year-old boy to believe he's falling apart.
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