Poop fiction— the cheeky genre of children’s literature that makes heavy use of potty humor. See which books are making the biggest splash.
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
If Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is the foundational work of modern American fiction, then Captain Underpants is the foundational work of poop fiction. After the release of this masterpiece, USA today said “[Pilkey is] the best-selling bad boy of children’s literature.” The Educational Book & Media Association calls him a "talented artist and inventive humorist as well as a subtle moralist." High praise well deserved for the artist who created what some have called the most gallant hero-fool in all of Western literature: a hypnotized principle who fights crime in his whitey tighties and a torn curtain. First Quixote, then Falstaff, and now: Captain Underpants.
The Moose with Loose Poops
This gripping story of gastroenteritis tells the tale of Miles, a moose who gets diarrhea on a family picnic outing in Maine. Though some Historians have proposed a connection between Cowan's story and Theodore Roosevelt's maritime war actions following the battleship Maine's explosion in the harbor of Havana, Cuba in 1898, those claims remain unsolidified.
Via: amazon.com
The Day My Butt Went Psycho
In this thrilling tale of geopolitical struggle, a terrorist cell of butts have fled their owners' bodies. The rogue butts plan to knock humanity unconscious with a fart of immeasurable megatonage delivered by the Bumcano--a (you guessed it) massive, volcanic butt. With humanity incapacitated, the butts plan to return to their owners and reclaim their rightful seat: on their owners' heads! This evocative drama will send you ass over teakettle. Faithful to its claim of truthfulness, the story is a symbolic retelling of the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis.*
*No it's not.
Via: scholastic.com
Poopendous!
The Amazon book description says: "Rhyming couplets feature Professor Poopdeck and two young friends as he takes them on a type of poop safari." Professor Poopdeck? Is that really the best you could come up with!? "Poopdeck" is a spondee; it totally jacks with the pentameter. Somewhere under Stratford, Shakespeare is weeping into his leather gloves.
Via: amazon.com
