This week I'd like to take some time to highlight the book that I've read the most often over the past couple months: Taro Gomi's seminal work, Everyone Poops. If you haven't read it, I highly recommend you get a hardcover copy (the audiobook is not quite the same). Basically, this groundbreaking text removes some of the taboos associated with going potty (or, literally, pooping), in a fun and approachable way. If you are or have a small child, they will certainly become fascinated with the open and honest way that different animals (and people) defecate.
What I like most about this book, apart from the bunny page, is that it is almost uncomfortably graphic. Now, it is a children's book to be sure ("every book is a children's book if the kid can read" - Mitch Hedberg), but when you think about it, watching an animal or a baby poop is quite the experience, and not one that we are used to seeing in books or on tv or in movies. So when we see it in this book, it can be a bit shocking. But it shouldn't be. We shouldn't live in a day and age when it's not normal to talk about these things. The potty going behavior of adults is directly related to their health, so it would behoove us to not have this be such a taboo subject.
After all, everyone poops.
What I like most about this book, apart from the bunny page, is that it is almost uncomfortably graphic. Now, it is a children's book to be sure ("every book is a children's book if the kid can read" - Mitch Hedberg), but when you think about it, watching an animal or a baby poop is quite the experience, and not one that we are used to seeing in books or on tv or in movies. So when we see it in this book, it can be a bit shocking. But it shouldn't be. We shouldn't live in a day and age when it's not normal to talk about these things. The potty going behavior of adults is directly related to their health, so it would behoove us to not have this be such a taboo subject.
After all, everyone poops.
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