Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty

This book is a must have for parents, teachers, anyone who has kids in their lives. I've given this book to four young lads and all have given it five stars and so have their parents. The book offers simple, easy to understand responses to the the simple but hard to answer questions kids ask. It covers a large range of topics and offers short but concise, simple, easily understood answers. Adults will find themselves getting answers to things they have wondered about but were embarrassed to ask! I wish I had had the book when my son was young. The book should be required reading for all teachers and should be in every classroom librart. Would make a wonderful gift for educators and all kids, both boys and girls, anyone. One boy I had given a copy of the book to got it out at a sleep over with five other boys. Mom was astonished when the boys didn't watch videos or play video games but were up til all hours reading aloud with frequent outbursts of laughter and outcries of "YUCK!" What could offer a better endorsement?

"Oh Yuck!" was an instant hit with my 7 year old son who loves science and math, but prefers not to read aloud. It is educational, informative and timely when one of the topics relates to you: blisters, warts, lice, rash, farts an so on. Our friends loved it so much, we sent them a copy...full of interesting facts that everyone should know and few want to discuss, this is a great introduction to the human body and things to look out for in the world. It is interesting for parents and children of all ages!!! I highly reccomend it.

I got this book for my son who is 12. He immediately started reading and laughed at various things. He flips through and finds what interests him, and then reads it again to his cousins. While laughing about farts he has read the anatomical names for the parts of the body that are involved about 5 times, and asked me a few questions about diferent things. He's getting exposed to lots of science information and having fun while doing it. I think he'll come back to a lot of this science later and have some basic background that will help him learn in the future.

Not only is this book gross, but it is very educational.I bought it for my eight year old son. He likes to read... but only about things that interest him, my purchasing this book was an attempt to get him to read more. When I gave him the book he was thrilled just simply by the cover. He was busy for 2 hours after I initially gave it to, he was just flipping through looking at all of the gross things he could read about.Last night before bed we learned all about vomit, yes that's right... vomit. He thought he was just hearing about gross things that interest boys BUT he was learning. We learned that the stomach is not what actually makes us vomit, we learned that the Medula Oblengata is the part of the body resposible for this disgusting stuff. We also learned that cows have 4 stomachs and the process that happens in each of the four stomachs.Tonight we have already decided we are reading about Ticks, and can't wait to see what the book has to sayParents, I actually had to yell at my son to put the book down and get ready for school this morning!!!We are enjoying it very much, and I highly recommend this book to any parent of a little boy (or girl). They will think they are just reading about gross stuff, but you will know they are learning!!!

I purchased this for a friends son - in an attempt to get him to enjoy reading. I mean, c'mon, what 9 year old boy doesn't love the gross and disgusting things in life? Unfortunately the adults got a bigger bang out of the book than the kid did. I thought the book was highly entertaining and have since decided my friends son lacks personality and a sense of humor.. or maybe he just really hates reading.I thought the book was great. I should have kept it for myself.

Anything that keeps kids reading is great !Grandson loves this book

I bought this book as a gift for a ten-year-old grandson who prides him self on being a non-reader. He can read, he just doesn't want to. I was even told by his mother not to bother with buying him books. I am pleased to say he loved it. Oh, at first he groaned and put it aside, but eventually he picked it up and enjoyed reading about slimey animals, yucky things you can make in the kitchen, plants than can make you itch, insects that are cannibals, microscopic animals that live in your bed, and so forth. There are lots of pictures and line drawings and cartoons. So, if you are targeting a similar audience, I highly recommend this book.

I am ten years old and naturally my mom is concerned with my love of everything gross, disturbing, and cannabalizm she gets disappointed in me when she hears me talking about How I am going to be a pathologist and take out people’s organs, or scoop people’s eyeballs out with spoons.I really Love this book because it talks about poop, cannabalism, eating poisonis fish ,too some pretty disturbing facts about what is in hotdogs. I am really surprised that a woman is the author of the book because ,usually men and boys like disgusting facts .I rated it only 3 stars because their were a lot of missing points about a lot of the topics and it pretty much always got off topic and skipped around.