Fun fiction and nonfiction books for kids about bugs, body parts and other gross stuff.
Nonfiction
Presents instructions for creating twenty-five realistic recreations for practical jokes, including shrunken heads, fake feces, attachable blisters, and broken glass.
Grossology series
Animal Grossology takes advantage of kids' fascination with the gross to teach them about the animal world-or at least those members of it that can be categorized as "vomit munchers," "blood slurpers," "slime makers," and "dookie lovers." Part of the Grossology series.
In the macabre spirit of the Halloween season, funny rhymes range from “Parasite Lost” to “Leap Halloween,” and are illustrated with gruesome graphics.
Describes microorganisms and insects that live on and in the human body including close-up views of blood-sucking, pooping lice and burrowing blood flukes. Book includes scientific and historical facts and figures about bacteria, parasites, and the diseases they cause.
Gross Body Science
Presents disgusting facts about wounds and bruises, how the body heals them, and how infection can take hold in injured areas. Part of the Gross Body Science series.
Enhanced with colorful illustrations, sidebars, and amusing poems, an informative picture book provides fun facts about bathroom-related issues throughout history.
The sequel to The Truth About Poop presents an abundance of fascinating information on pee throughout history, in the animal kingdom, and in science.
This gross yet cool title shows the many ways animals use their feces, including tricking their predators and prey, sending messages, feeding themselves and their babies, building homes, marking their territories and more.
Gross and weird facts connected to the human body and other organisms.
Laughing Matters
Presents a collection of jokes and riddles about unpleasant things. Look for more Laughing Matters titles.
Grossology series
Provides information in a not-so-serious manner about such topics as blood, eyeballs, brains, bruises, constipation, warts, rashes, and more. Part of the Grossology series.
Gross body science
Presents disgusting facts about the human mouth, how it works to aid in digestion, the organisms that live there, and ways to keep it clean and healthy.
Strange scientific facts and real answers to gross questions are presented in this amusing and slightly disgusting fact-filled book for young readers.
What's Lurking in This House!
Read "In This Bathroom" to learn about silverfish, life on a toothbrush, and other gross bathroom surprises. Look for more What's Lurking in This House! titles.
A collection of poems, facts, statistics, and stories about unusual foods and eating habits both contemporary and historical.
Gross body science
Presents disgusting facts about human skin, the diseases and parasites that can cause problems with it, and how it functions to protect the body and itself. Part of the Gross Body Science series.
An illustrated encyclopedia of history’s messiest, dumbest, grossest, wackiest, and weirdest moments.
An alphabetical collection of articles about disgusting things, from acne, ants, and bacteria to worms, x-periments, and zits.
Fact finders: Extreme life
Describes dung beetles, including development, place in the food chain, and how they help the environment. Look for more Fact Finders: Extreme Life titles.
A noted zoologist teams up with a playful illustrator to present a fun, fact-filled guide to the fascinating (if not fragrant) world of poop across species. Take a peek at Poop and find out all you need to know-what it's for, where it goes, and how much we can learn from it.
Read Me!: Disgusting Body Facts
Learn about constipation, burping, and puking. Look for more Disgusting Body Facts titles.
Describes the current sewage treatment system and the history of human sewage treatment.
Describes a variety of strange medical practices from the past.
Edge Books. Amazingly Gross Human Body
Describes what vomit consists of, how the human body manufactures vomit, and why vomit is gross. Part of the Edge Books - The Amazingly Gross Human Body series.
Edge Books. Amazingly Gross Human Body.
Describes the gross qualities of mucus, and how it works to benefit a person's health. Part of the Edge Books - The Amazingly Gross Human Body series.
A compendium of fascinating, weird, and gross facts about excrement.
Introduces the history of warfare and military life through sanitary practices and characteristic odors. Look for more Smelly Old History titles.
Answers questions about science that kids want to know, from astronaut farts to black holes.
Fiction
In nineteenth-century France, Joseph Pujol, a little boy who can control his farts, grows up to become Le Petomaine, making audiences laugh at the Moulin Rouge in Paris with his animal noises, songs, and other sounds.
Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
Billy Forrester; bk. 1
Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.
Although it may not be a skill appreciated by all, the Tardy Boys are certain that their cat's unique ability to cough up giant-sized hair balls is the kind of talent the judges will want to see at the upcoming talent contest.
Jack Henry books; 4
Moving with his unbearable sister to Miami, Florida, Jack tries to break some of his bad habits but finds himself irresistibly drawn to things disgusting, gross, and weird.
When everyone tells Littlesaurus to use his potty, he ignores them and exclaims "Potty poo poo wee wee!" until his grandmother gives him some important information.
Stink Moody; bk. 3
A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
Captain Underpants; bk. 1
When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
Walter the farting dog; bk. 1
Walter the dog creates problems with his farts but becomes a hero when burglars enter the house.
Funny and rhythmic text--perfect for reading aloud--provides "gross-out" information about animal babies and the foods they like to eat, from a crunchy beetle and furry rat to a rotten egg and hairy spider.