Customer Reviews

Always Lots of Heinies at the Zoo

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The title of this book captured my attention, and intrigued me as well - was this a book solely devoted to bottoms? Well, it's that and much more - the book looks at the bottoms of various animals at the zoo, and portrays all of these animals with their bottoms, but the depictions are tastefully done. Each animal's bottom is referred to using various words, "haunches of the caribou", "mandrill's fanny", "buns of a baby bunny", "jellyfish's tushy", etc. Various shades of color are also referred to such as ecru, cobalt blue, azalea, etc.

The illustrations are gorgeously detailed, in full rich color. My preschooler enjoyed this book and loved the illustrations, learning various ways to call a bottom in the process, though I did skim over words like "booty" which I found inappropriate for her at her age. I feel this is a humorous and creative book, but of course, it is up to parents and teachers how and if, they wish to use it. Only recommended to those with a great big sense of humor.

I have been a fan of Ayun Halliday's for years, ever since I first saw her on stage in Chicago with the Neo-Futurists theater group. I am a loyal East Village Inky subscriber (check out her awesome zine!) and own almost all her wonderful books for adults. She continues to evolve in her endeavors, the latest being this delightful and hilarious book for children (and adults like me). The language is lyrical, rhythmic, and funny, the story entertaining and informative (without being didactic) and the pictures are colorful and inventive. PLUS, well, there are lots and lots of heinies on every page! What kid doesn't want to know more about that oh-so-amusing part of the body? This book made me crack up (excuse the pun) and was a pure joy to read. Run out and buy it right now! Fun summer reading for the little guys!

I loved this book so much it made me want to go back to teaching! Amazing illustrations and cleverly crafted text. This would be a great book just for fun, or for illustrating the magic of a thesaurus! Couldn't recommend it highly enough, for classrooms and families!

I have an 8 year old and a 1 year old, and I bought this book for both. I knew my older child would appreciate the content and humor and I figured the baby would like the pictures now and the content later down the road. Oh, and I also bought it for myself, I won't lie. Well, none of us were let down. My 8 year thought it was really funny and cute and loved the fact that it rhymes. The baby dug the bright colors and animal pictures. And I loved it for all of the above and the fact that it even managed to be educational. I have a feeling I'll be hearing the word "heinie" many, many times in the years to come.

Fun book to read, my 4 year old digs it. The language is fun, gotta appreciate skillful use of meter in a children's book. The illustrations are beautiful. A great addition to our book shelf. Ayun Halliday's books for adults are among my favorites, so it's cool to share her style with my little one. At this age, potty humor is a big winner, so this book, with its butt-euphemisms, ranks up there with Everyone Poops. Recommended!

If my little guy were not so little anymore and reading his own books, this would have been a regular bed time read in our house and much enjoyed. As it is, I am a mom of a teenager and no matter how much I love going to the book section for kids in the library and bookstore, he will only tolerate my excitement for long enough to see a book through once. Being that he is a boy though and butt jokes are totally fun at any age for boys, he laughed at the end and thought the story believable. In fact, he had a toddler friend when he was the same who was fascinated with the rear end of things. Too bad we lost touch with that sweet kid over the years and through many moves. This book would make an excellent gift for her, at any age.

That said, no heavy messages here, no guilt trips played on unsuspecting parents through story lines that make them feel they are not as good as the parent on the page. This is light and lovely, full of color and fun. Oh yeah, and heinies-o-plenty!

I am an aunt. I do not need to buy useful gifts. This will be a huge hit with two of my favorite little girls. They will be able to use many, many different words for the hind ends of all their favorite animals! The artwork is great. The story is done well, is funny, and has excellent vocabulary. A must buy!!

Oh how funny this book is to a 4 year old! The illustrations are so cute and enjoyable. And the story is adorable also. An immediate trip to the zoo is in order. My grandson especially laughed at the picture towards the end of the book that shows the boy taking off all his clothes and you can see his heinie!! We laughed a lot through the whole story. It'll be one of his favorites now.

MY KIDS LOVE THIS BOOK! It has become the number one requested bedtime story, leaving the rest of their rather large library gathering dust on the shelves.... lots of laughter ensues... and lots of new words to learn, too! win-win!

My 5 year old daughter and I love this book (my 17 month old son seems to enjoy it. At least he enjoys his sister's maniacal laughter when I read it). About 6 or 7 readings were requested the day it arrived. Oh, and I'm happy to report that above-mentioned daughter's bottom-related vocabulary has increased 10-fold with repeated readings. Really wonderful illustrations as well.