My little man, like many little boys, is very fond of toilet humor. He finds anything to do with bottoms, underpants, and toilets hilarious. You only have to mention the words and he is in fits of laughter.
I don’t understand it myself and before I was a Mum to a little boy, I thought it was something that was learned. I was so wrong! It is something that is just in their genetic makeup. We did nothing to encourage the toilet humor (unless my husband did so when I wasn’t in earshot) and yet my son finds it so hilarious!
So… combine a story about underpants (pants as they are referred to in this book) and an adventure to the moon and we are hooked.
Poor Zoe is hanging out her clean pants when a huge gust of wind sweeps her and her dog Beans up into space where they land with a “bump on the moon”.
Whilst on the moon, Zoe and Bean have an “upside down party with a moony mole” and sing “here we go round the moony moon” until; while having a rest looking at the stars, Zoe thinks of a way to get home.
This is a delightfully descriptive story with just enough humor to create a few giggles but not too many that it can’t be read at bedtime ;-). The illustrations are beautifully simple and clear.
Book Details:
Chloe and Mick Inkpen
ISBN: 978-0230748477
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, June 2012
Suitable for ages: 3-5 years
