It All Began with a Bean: The True Story of the World's Biggest Fart - Softcover

McKy, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933718234 ISBN 13: 9781933718231

Publisher: Tanglewood, 2011

Synopsis

What happens when, one day, a dropped bean is devoured by ten flies, and hundreds of dogs eat cheese fallen from a truck, and thousands of runners begin gulping air, and all the people at home that morning have eggs for breakfast, and then they all fart at once? This hilarious book answers that intriguing question, as readers learn the after-effects of the world's biggest fart on the poor town where it happens, from poodles' curls going limp to elephants plugging their trunks with bananas. This unique picture book, with lighthearted illustrations, will entertain children and parents alike.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3 - This over-the-top, tall-tale style picture book is supposedly "the true story of what happened when everything and everyone farted at once." Innocuously beginning with a fly eating a bean, birds, fish, dogs, cats, and more than half a million people all coincidentally ingest gas-producing foods at the same time. When everyone lets loose at once, the resulting chaos blasts "the paint from police cars to school buses.... The gas parted the threads in teachers' clothes. The kids got to see the principal's underpants!" Even after the explosion, the smell still lingers: "It was so strong that green slid out of the leaves of trees. Freckles slid off cheeks.... Even skunks searching for food in trashcans had to close their noses." Eventually a mighty wind blows the gas away (although the billowing cloud does not bode well for the town downwind). Ridiculous to the extreme, this story is illustrated with comic cartoons featuring bug-eyed characters with greenish/brownish/yellowish clouds exploding out of their derrières. Although gross-out bodily humor is quite popular these days, not everyone will be able to enjoy this book. The right audience is sure to get a laugh. - Piper L. Nyman, formerly at Fairfield Civic Center Library, CA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tanglewood
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1933718234
• ISBN 13: 9781933718231
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hill Tracy