I'm Trying To Love Farts
by Bethany Barton
Illustrations by the author
Viking
an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
2025
40 pages
ISBN: 9780593l773
Funny and fact-filled, this new picture book is hilarious and filled with laugh out loud illustrations and text. Bethany Barton knocks it out of the park for capturing the giggling first grade student in all of us (Well, some of us have that first grade student deeply buried, but I bet this picture book will make them grin, smirk and maybe guffaw). Cute illustrations by the author depict a loving and joking relationship between the two siblings.
A girl explains farts, scientific name flatulance, to her younger bother who thinks farts are hilarious! ( I, too, think farts are hilarius). The girl explains the source of farts which is from swallowing air and eating foods. Did you know each fart is different?
The average person farts between ten and twenty times a day, and yes, beans do make us fart more because they are fibrous and take longer to digest. The large intestine can digest them. Did you know termites are responsible for up to three percent of methane emissions? Tiny little bugs that cause so much damage to wood also are damaging our ozone.
I'm Trying To Love Farts is a fun read especially for reluctant readers. It would be a great addition to story time with this caveat: don't expect children to be calm listening to the reading. They will laugh, joke, and even demonstrate farting!
End pages are illustrated with types of farts defined by the author inlcuding the Little Ripper and The Eggy One.
Highly recommended ages four and up.
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