There’s not much love for those that like their children’s books transgressive. There just isn’t very much in the way of shocking in books for the pre-school set. Sure, Japan has given us Everbody Poops and The Gas We Pass, but those are fairly benign really. Well the nation that brought us existential terror (and the nutella crepe!) has come through again. A lovely new book called That’s Disgusting has hit the shelves. The book gives us thirty nasty images followed by the words “That’s Disgusting.” It starts out with minor problems like sitting in chocolate or eating socks but quickly escalates to making shit sculptures and sticking a finger in the cat’s ass.
This stuff will certainly have the kids in stitches. Instead of giving parents their fifth copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, spice up bed time with That’s Disgusting.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
This is your ass, and I'm in it
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Also high on the list should be the Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey ("A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears" u.s.w.).
The wife prefers that I read Dr. Seuss' ABC Amazing Alphabet Book to the tots, in which Big A and little a correspond to Aunt Annie's alligator, as opposed to a plummeting lass.
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