Walter the Farting Dog [Unknown Binding]

Product Details

• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525439668
• ISBN-13: 978-0525439660
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (202 customer reviews)

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88 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Putting things in perspective, September 21, 2004

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chefdevergue (Spokane, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)

Is this the greatest kids' book ever? I certainly wouldn't try to make a case for that. Does it deserve the venom that some of the reviewers have directed at it? Hardly, but some people are coming as close as they can to alleging plagarism on the part of the author. Fart plagarism --- I never thought I would live to see the day.

Honestly, if anything written from this point forward involving dogs and flatulence is immediately going to be subjected to allegations of plagarism, then we might as well take the allegations to their logical extremes. I would note that John Irving featured a farting dog in the 1981 novel "Hotel New Hampshire," which I guess means all farting dog books since then are simply John Irving ripoffs.

For those reviewers who were shocked, shocked I tell you, that the book's content was, dare I say it, a little crude --- I would simply suggest that you read the book's title a little more diligently. There is no hidden agenda here --- what you see is what you get, and really, it is not nearly as vulgar as it could be. Good grief.

As to the book itself --- it is a fairly entertaining book with amusingly bizarre artwork and some pretty amusing dialogue. An adult with some talent with sound effects could have a great deal of fun entertaining the youngsters, as I did. Books that are as much fun for the adult reader as the youthful listener don't come down the pike every day.

39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids and adults both love this one!, May 9, 2005

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K. Corn "reviewer" (midwest, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)

Let's face it, even if adults put on a disapproving face when their kids start talking about farts, deep down they know (as do their kids) that farts are just plain...funny...and something that toes the line between disgusting and hilarious.

So Walter is the perfect character, a dog who has a gas problem.....and quite a problem it is. Just reading this book makes most adults and kids break into giggles and it is just plain fun to read - again and again.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny book for young kids, August 16, 2002

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This review is from: Walter the Farting Dog (Hardcover)

Yes, it's a little crude, but it also deals with something that we all have and makes it funny. The tales of Walter and his gas had me laughing so hard I was crying. Young kids will get a kick out of this.
If you do story reading to yound children at schools, this would be a fun book.