Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
A perfect baby gift, this charming and funny board book features animals from around the world, each one celebrating their uniquely shaped bum.
All bottoms are wonderful! Don’t you agree? Each animal has a different reason for loving their behind—from cute and round to fashionable and striped!
Now available as a board book, this celebration of self love and body positivity will have the tiniest of readers (and their parents) laughing out loud at the backsides of hippos, zebras, pandas, and more or our favorite animals. Illustrator Maki Saito’s traditional Japanese art techniques add a sophisticated, beautiful feel to a book about animal butts. Everyone’s proud of their bottoms!
“The painterly patoots are lovely in their texture and shading…. By the end (ha!) we’ve learned a little about these remarkable creatures.”—The Horn Book
Price: $9.95
Pages: 28
Publisher: Greystone Books
Imprint: Greystone Kids
Publication Date:
14 March 2024
Trim Size: 6.75 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781778401510
Format: Board Book
BISACs:
JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Mammals, Early years: nature & animals, JUVENILE FICTION / Diversity & Multicultural, JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Body, JUVENILE FICTION / Concepts / Size & Shape, JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Diversity, equality and inclusion, Children’s / Teenage personal & social topics: body & health, Early years: the body & the senses, Children’s picture books, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
“Kids just love reading about bottoms, ha!… sure to get lots of laughs from kids, but it also makes a good guessing game and a way for young kids to learn animal names."
—Book Riot
“Kids will enjoy the animals, and their caregivers will be grateful for the elegant text with great adjectives.... [This book] will definitely find an audience with toddlers obsessed with their bottoms! And caregivers who want to start early with body positivity will be thrilled."
—Youth Services Book Review, STARRED Review
“The text is light, conversational, and funny; and the painterly patoots are lovely in their texture and shading…. By the end (ha!) we’ve learned a little about these remarkable creatures.”
—The Horn Book
“This humorous title delivers just what it promises: fauna fawning over their own rumps. ...In Saito’s delicate renderings, each bottom is distinct and, yes, beautiful.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“From a cuddly round bunny bottom to a hippo’s “so-o-o big” bum, Saito celebrates animal behinds in all their forms...there’s not a trace of self-consciousness in this jaunty, no-nonsense exhibition of animal posteriors.”
—Publishers Weekly
“With the frisson of the forbidden, it focuses on animals’ amazingly stylish rear-ends—from fluffy to striped to spiky, with humorous charm and elegant illustrations.”
—Toronto Star
MAKI SAITO is an artist and author known for her unique artistic methods using paper collage, stenciled paintings, and bin-gata, a traditional Japanese dyeing technique developed in Okinawa. She has written and illustrated several books in Japanese, inspired by her love for all living creatures in nature. Animals Brag About Their Bottoms is her first book translated into English.