The logical successor to Bennetts previous classics, The Butt Book and Poopendous! (2010, 2012).This snicker-inducing topic will be difficult for kids to resist. Those wayward gasses are always escapingchildren might as well learn their physiology. Breaking his windy subject into two sections (with farts getting the lions share of the attention), Bennett focuses on burps first. Loose, rhyming couplets make mention of trapped gasses and the fizz of soda. But readers will have to decipher a bit on their own as well. Talk too much when chomping chow? is a nifty way to make a rhyme with cow, but it does not lend itself to an immediate understanding that one can swallow air while chewing. The second part is dedicated to farts. Lets face it, they are far more fun. Greenish-yellow puffs and smell lines abound. A bit more science is offered here; microbes and bacteria are introduced, though they are never fully explained. If nothing else, young readers can practice counting to 14 during the calendarlike spread depicting the average number of farts per day. Sentences proclaiming themselves facts are appended at the end, though some are debatable. Can the definition of morning thunder really fall under that category?A light, comiclook at two bodily functions with high child appealbut not noteworthy nonfiction. (Informational picture book. 4-8) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

A slapstick but thorough investigation, told in jaunty rhymes, of all the ways in which humans and animals emit bodily gasses. Adults, too, might learn quite a bit from this instructive and playful emporium of gastrointestinal erudition. For instance, "Here's one of nature's stranger facts: / We cannot burp on our backs!" Two pages of facts and trivia are included. (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.