$17.99
ISBN: 9781338740271
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Published: Scholastic Press - October 4th, 2022
Okay, so this was where I was originally going to have John Irving’s The Chairlift. I’ve loved John Irving since I read The World According to Garp, and there was that line, “Beware the undertoad”--which if you’ve read Garp you probably remember, too, because while it was a character’s mishearing of the word undertow, it’s really, really true, that the cosmic anvil can drop on our heads at any moment. John Irving gets that about the universe and the life of people in it. That no one is ever protected, not really.
But as much as I adore John Irving, Tammi Sauer’s picture books always make me laugh and always make me smile, and these are two very valuable experiences in our endless trash fire of a world these days. The Underpants is about what happens when Kitty paws through Farmer’s fresh laundry and decides that his tighty whiteys are a coat, and then the rest of the farm animals squeeze in with her. It’s clever. It’s funny. It makes you forget that the Acme safe of life might crash on your noggin at any second. It’s a stellar read aloud. Really, what more do you need?
