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Jane Yolen is the author of over four hundred books for children and adults. Her books, stories, and poems have won many awards, including the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, three Golden Kite Awards, and the Jewish Book Award. She lives in Hatfield, Massachusetts. Visit janeyolen.com, @Jane.Yolen on Facebook, @JaneYolen on Twitter, and @JYolen on Instagram. Ryan G. Van Cleave wrote his first poem at age five, and he's been writing, reading, and loving poetry ever since. He earned a PhD in American literature with an emphasis in poetry and has taught at numerous colleges and universities. As The Picture Book Whisperer, he helps celebrities and high-profile clients write picture books and kidlit projects. The works of Mexico City artist Luis San Vicente have been exhibited in Mexico, Venezuela, Europe and the U.S. He has won UNESCO's prestigious NOMA Encouragement Concours Prize for Illustration, UNESCO honored his work (1997, 1998 and 1999) in their prestigious Youth and Children's Catalog of Illustrations.
"""Yolen and Van Cleave give voice to bodily noises--from butts that ""BOOM"" to giggles and gasps--in a riotously silly poetry collection perfectly tuned to a toilet humor-loving audience.""--Publishers Weekly Yolen and Van Cleave give voice to bodily noises--from butts that ""BOOM"" to giggles and gasps--in a riotously silly poetry collection perfectly tuned to a toilet humor-loving audience. Describing incidental body noises such as ""bumbling, / crumbling, rumbling, stumbling"" stomachs, the authors capitalize on explosive consonants and rhythms to embed a snappy musicality in the text. They strike a balance between education and absurdity, pairing the poems with scientific facts and related trivia on topics including music made with bodies (""West Africa's hambone, Ethiopian armpit music""), wheezing snakes, and a late 19th-century Parisian ""fartiste."" With bold lines and dramatic color blocking, San Vicente's artwork features disproportionate, angular figures of various skin tones with exaggerated facial expressions and cartoonish physicality, amplifying the raucous energy of this over-the-top collection."
