What makes this book special? It’s hard to make body humor tasteful, and this book comes close enough to do so to make it okay to read to a class.īibliotherpeutic Uses (if applicable): hypochondria (joking…) Summary: A boy looses some hair, then a tooth, then something falls out of his nose… Is he falling apart? Will he ever regrow what he’s lost? Of course!Įvaluation: This is a hilarious book about how the human body works and how some parts are “replaceable.” (Sept.Genre and Theme: Lyrical verse fiction talking about the basics of anatomy and overcoming hypochondria.Īnnotation: If all of my parts fall off, will their be anything left? Trying to make sense of one's ""parts"" is a common childhood concern, and Arnold's (No More Water in the Tub!) comical hyperbole will set children at ease about fears they might hesitate to share. The subject matter, despite its potential to be disgusting, is treated as funny but commonplace. Strands of hair in a comb arouse thoughts of premature baldness ""a chunk of something gray and wet,"" fallen from a nostril, is identified as ""a little piece of brain."" (Attempting to find answers, the young hypochondriac pores over a stack of books on gray matter, including a ""Book of Marbles"" for those losing theirs.) The boy's parents insist that nose goo and flaky skin are normal, but their solemn reassurance is met with a gross punch line: ""Then tell me, what's this yellow stuff I got out of my ear?"" Whimsical cartoons, in warm watercolor hues and texturized with squiggles of colored pencil that resemble the boy's decreasing hairs, show the narrator in the foreground and his worst fantasies in the background.
It was/ My stuffing coming out!"" Each discovery increases the narrator's anxiety. ""I stared at it, amazed, and wondered,/ What's this all about?/ But then I understood. In this humorously askew look at the body, belly-button lint leads a five-year-old boy to believe he's falling apart.
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