Bottoms Up!

by
Jeanne Willis
Illustrator: Adam Stower

A celebration of bottoms! Knickers are always hilarious to the young (and, secretly, their elders), but in her latest offering Willis questions the need for them.

Firmly supporting rebellious toddlers who remove their clothing whenever they can, she celebrates bottoms, willies, bazoomers and beneaths, arguing that animals don't hide their bits, so why should babies?

Stower's funny, brightly coloured, energetic illustrations enlarge on Willis's rhyming text, imagining amazing situations among underwear-endowed animals.

Particularly entertaining are the penguins, marching behind a panda in their pants, closely followed by a python who appears already to have eaten the end of the procession!

Empowering stuff and ideal for a bedtime read or an in-depth unravelling of the text and pictures.

Publisher: Walker Books

Jeanne Willis

Jeanne wrote her first book when she was five years old and hasn't stopped writing since. She now has over eighty titles to her name, including picture books, novels and television scripts. She has also won numerous awards, including the Children's Book Award, the Sheffield Children's Book Award and the Silver Smarties Prize. Her teen novel, Naked Without a Hat (Faber) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award in 2004. She often takes inspiration from dreams and interesting conversations with strangers.

Jeanne Willis