Author: Jeanne Willis
Illustrator: Adam Stower
Publisher: Puffin Books, $14.95 RRP
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141502137
For ages: 3+
Type: Picture book
About: Sometimes a funny, ridiculous story is what we need – nothing too heavy or serious, just something to share a laugh with our little ones and be a bit silly for a few minutes.
What better way to do that than reading a story about bottoms?
Written from the perspective of babies protesting to their parents about wearing nappies, Bottoms Up gives us a number of reasons why bottoms shouldn’t be covered. ‘Bottoms are beautiful, bottoms aren’t rude’, the babies insist, going on to point out that animals don’t have to wear nappies or knickers.
‘Do piglets wear panties?’ they ask. ‘Do bats wear bikinis?’ they cry. And the examples become funnier and funnier, until they call for all the babies and toddlers to throw their nappies away – bottoms up!
We just have to hope that, amongst all this hilarity, our children don’t take these protests literally.
The illustrations, too, are hilarious, with all sorts of animals looking ridiculous as they boldly dance around in human underwear. And who could resist the gorgeous babies strutting their stuff with those pinchable bare bottoms!
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