Looks at more than one hundred bizarre dishes from around the world, including tarantula, blood sausage, guinea pig, deep-fried river frogs, and chicken feet.
Join Yuck for some bona fide Yucky fun as he takes on big boogers and stinky socks in these two revolting adventures.
"Austin's life was perfect until Amy moved in next door. It seems to be 'yuck' at first sight, but when Austin is invited to her party, he decides Amy deserves nothing less than the moon" Cf. Our choice, 2001.
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.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2006 by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd"--Copyright page.
Andy is a fast runner.
At a busy street market, kids eating ice cream exclaim, "Yum!" in English, "Geshmak!" in Yiddish, and "Nam-nam!" in Danish.
So to get even, he assembles his revolting gang for a gruesome party with gross games galore! And he and his pals are going to make Polly the most disgusting birthday cake ever!
Yet this kind of stuff appeals greatly to kids. The purpose of this book is to de-sanitize the past, present it as it actually was, and help kids come to an understanding of how people put up with it—or didn't even notice.
Yuck is the master of all things disgusting in these two tales—especially when he adds a squirmy pet and some gross-out tricks to the mix.
Children will love this book. Their heavy use and the foldout flaps will necessitate periodic replacement.