Usher

My Way

Everyone DOES poop!

Review Score:

(10/10)
People look to books that address issues important to them. Everyone wants a book that relates to their own world view and literature that either reaffirms or extends that view; this book is a perfect example of this.

For a child nearing the age when he or she begins to become aware of and acquainted with his or her body and bodily functions, this book offers insight and a better understanding of a process that has become a foremost issue with which they are concerned, and to which they pay great attention. For a child, the potty-training process can be one of either great defiance or one of great achievement and accomplishment. This book illustrates to children that they are part of the natural rhythms of the universe and the overall normal order of things.

The bright illustrations of fun and exotic animals as they pose with their excrement encourage the children that pooping is a matter of fact. This also has an underlying diversity theme illustrated by the emphasis placed on the different characters and their individual fecal matter. This sends the message that although all of our bodies are similar we also have individual variations, a theme that can be applied to other lessons that children will later learn.

I chose to review this book because it brings to light an important and oddly taboo subject matter. I like this book because it encourages discussion of sanctioned, socially unacceptable subject matter. Simply put, everyone does poop. This book exemplifies how even the most natural of things and something so simple as to be the topic of a childrenÂ¡Â¦s book, has become distorted in our societyÂ¡Â¦s view. This has a multitude of applications reaching far beyond its intended audience.

I should end by saying that I did wash my hands after reading the bookÆÂº.

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