Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty - Softcover

Joy Masoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761107711 ISBN 13: 9780761107712

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 2000

Synopsis

Kids love stuff that's gross. From the liquids, solids, and gases--especially the gases!--or their own bodies to the creepy, crawly, slimy, slithery, fetid, and feculent phenomena in the world at large, kids with a curious bent just can't get enough. Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty brings together, in one book, all the good things about some of the baddest things on Earth.

Exhaustively researched and impeccably scientific, yet written with a lively lack of earnestness, Oh, Yuck! is an ants to zits encyclopedic compendium covering people, animals, insects, plants, foods, and more. Here are vampire bats, which sip blood and pee at the same time so that they'll always be light enough to fly away; and slime eels, wreathed in mucus and eating fellow fish from the inside out. Oh, Yuck! explains why vomit smells; where dandruff comes from; what pus is all about; and why maggots adore rotting meant. Other features include gross recipes, putrid projects, 10 foods that make you airborne, and more.

With hundreds of cartoon illustrations and real-life photographs, Oh, Yuck! is the complete guide to the irresistible--at least to an 8-to-12 year old--underbelly of life.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

All the best stuff about some of the worst stuff on earth.

From the liquids, solids and gases—especially the gases!—of the human body to the creepy, crawly, fetid, and foul phenomena of the world at large, OH YUCK! is the all-encompassing compendium of gross.

Skin eruptions. Naked mole rats. The Donner party and the hissing roach of Madagascar, maggot therapy, ear wax, the good news about pus, and why vomit smells.

Plus raunchy recipes and vile x-periments—Exploding Zit, Scab Surprise, and more.

It's everything you ever wanted to know about the yucky side of life.

About the Author:

Joy Masoff, mother of two, fell into the world of gross when she became scoutmaster to a den of burping Cub Scouts, and then discovered that her Brownie troop has the same fascination with the feculent. She lives with her family in Waccabac, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761107711
• ISBN 13: 9780761107712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Illustrator: Terry Sirrell