Authors: Joy Masoff, Terry Sirrell
ISBN-13: 9780761107712, ISBN-10: 0761107711
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Joy Masoff, mother of two, fell into the world of gross when she became scoutmaster to a den of burping Cub Scouts, and then discovered that her Brownie troop has the same fascination with the feculent. She lives with her family in Waccabac, New York.
Kids love stuff that's gross. From the liquids, solids, and gases--especially the gases!--or their own bodies to the creepy, crawly, slimy, slithery, fetid, and feculent phenomena in the world at large, kids with a curious bent just can't get enough. Oh, Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty brings together, in one book, all the good things about some of the baddest things on Earth.
Exhaustively researched and impeccably scientific, yet written with a lively lack of earnestness, Oh, Yuck! is an ants to zits encyclopedic compendium covering people, animals, insects, plants, foods, and more. Here are vampire bats, which sip blood and pee at the same time so that they'll always be light enough to fly away; and slime eels, wreathed in mucus and eating fellow fish from the inside out. Oh, Yuck! explains why vomit smells; where dandruff comes from; what pus is all about; and why maggots adore rotting meant. Other features include gross recipes, putrid projects, 10 foods that make you airborne, and more.
With hundreds of cartoon illustrations and real-life photographs, Oh, Yuck! is the complete guide to the irresistible--at least to an 8-to-12 year old--underbelly of life.
This book is chock full of educational entries covering subjects from insects to bodily secretions.
Introduction Warning: This Book Is Downright Disgusting | viii | |
Acne: Look Out Below, Your Zit's About to Blow! | 1 | |
Ants: Some of These Creepy Crawlies Are No Picnic | 3 | |
Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Stinky | 6 | |
Bats: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Fuzzy Mammal? | 11 | |
Beetles: The Things That Go Crunch in the Night | 14 | |
Blood: How Something so Gross Can Be so Good | 18 | |
Body Lint: Would You Like Toe Jam with Your Toast? | 20 | |
Body Odor: I Sweat Therefore I Stink | 21 | |
Burping: A Belch Is Born | 24 | |
Cannibals: Let Them Eat...Fred? | 26 | |
Cockroaches: Or, How to Live for 135 Million Years on a Diet of Pure Garbage | 29 | |
Crocodilians: From King of the World to Swamp Thing | 33 | |
Dandruff: Snow for All Seasons | 35 | |
Earwax: Great Big Gobs of Brownish Gunk | 38 | |
Edible Bugs: Waiter, There's Some Soup in My Bug! | 42 | |
Eels: Slithery, Slimy Swarms of Fish | 46 | |
Eye Gunk: Mr. Sandman, Meet Mr. Mucus | 49 | |
Farts: A Burp from Below | 54 | |
Fleas: This Joint Is Jumping! | 57 | |
Flies Puking and Peeing: A Day in the Life of a Fly | 60 | |
Foul Feet: A Step in the Wrong Direction | 63 | |
Freaky Fish: Swim or Be Swallowed | 64 | |
Frightening Fashions: Outfits Wackier than Your Great-Aunt Ida's | 68 | |
Fungi: There's a Fungus Among Us! | 71 | |
Gross Grub: If You Think Broccoli Is Bad | 74 | |
Halitosis: Wake Up and Smell the Stench | 78 | |
Icky Insects: To Buzz or Not to Buzz | 82 | |
Jellyfish: Put on Your Pantyhose and Dive In! | 85 | |
Leeches: A Blood Buffet | 88 | |
Lice: Too Much Attention Can Go to Your Head | 91 | |
Lizards: Relax, Take Your Tail Off | 93 | |
Maggots: Decaying Dead Deer? Dinnertime!! | 96 | |
Miserable Meats: A Soda, Some Fries, and a Double Eyeball Burger with Cheese | 99 | |
Mites: Mighty Microscopic Munchers | 102 | |
Mosquitoes: A Midsummer Night's Scream | 103 | |
Mucky Medicine: This Will Only Hurt for a Second | 106 | |
Mummies: Are You My Mummy? | 110 | |
Naked Mole-Rats: Rough, Tough, and in the Buff | 113 | |
Parasites: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | 115 | |
Pee: They Call Me Mellow Yellow | 117 | |
Poop: A Bum Deal | 121 | |
Pus: Green, Goopy, and Good for You Too! | 124 | |
Quicksand: I'm Sinking and I Can't Get Up! | 126 | |
Rats: Long-tailed, Sharp Toothed Disease Buses | 128 | |
Raunchy Recipes: Today's Specials: Totally Nasty | 131 | |
Scabs: A Crusty Coat of Armor | 134 | |
Scorpions: Mini-Monsters of the Night | 136 | |
Shrunken Heads: A Nightmare for Your Noggin | 139 | |
Sickening Seafood: This Chapter Is Not for the Faint of Tummy | 140 | |
Skin Eruptions: Rashes, Blisters, and Warts. Oh My! | 144 | |
Skunks: A Putrescent Perfume | 149 | |
Slugs: Confessions of a Naked Snail | 152 | |
Snakes: Do the Fang Tango | 155 | |
Snot: You May Think It's Candy, but It's Snot | 160 | |
Spiders: They're Not All Itsy-Bitsy! | 163 | |
Spitting: Welcome to Loogie Land | 167 | |
Tar Pits: Stuck in a Rut | 171 | |
Ticks: A Bunch of Suckers | 173 | |
Toilets: A Royal Flush | 175 | |
Vile Vegetation: Fearsome Flowers and Vindictive Vines | 180 | |
Viruses: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 184 | |
Vomit: Bring Along a Barf Bag--This Is Gross! | 187 | |
Vultures: Chow Time at the Roadkill Cafe | 192 | |
Worms: Spaghetti That Squirms | 196 | |
X-Periments: Making Muck of Your Very Own | 198 | |
Bibliography | 203 | |
Photo Credits | 205 | |
Index | 207 |