Review - No One Likes a Fart

No One Likes a Fart
by Zoë Foster Blake
illustrated by Adam Nickel
Date: 2019
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Reading level: C
Book type: picture book
Pages: 32
Format: e-book
Source: library

Fart is desperate to make friends and have fun. But no one likes a fart -- not even a fart with a heart. With plenty of laughs and even more heart, this delightful picture book shows that even the smelliest among us can find a friend in this world.

No One Likes A Fart is a sweet, funny story about a lonely fart who is just looking to make a friend. But it's hard out there for a fart. Too smelly. Too embarrassing. Too gross. Striking the perfect balance of gross-out humor, wit, and heart, this beautifully illustrated picture book delivers a message of accepting yourself and finding a friend who loves you just the way you are.

(synopsis from Goodreads)

So this is a book about a fart. After being emitted from someone's backside, he floats into the world in search of a friend. But he soon realizes that farts aren't exactly welcome. In fact, everywhere he goes, he's subjected to rude comments. Nobody wants to be his friend. Eventually, though, he finds what he's looking for, where he's least expecting it.

There are lots of fart jokes in here, which is to be expected. Aside from the main narrative, we also see various characters' reactions to Fart as he goes on his journey. It's pretty funny, and universally relatable.

I mean, of course I'm going to recommend this to kids who think farts are funny. But this is also a pretty amusing book for anyone looking for a bit of a chuckle.

Quotable moment:

Premise: 3/5
Meter: n/a
Writing: 3/5
Illustrations: 4/5
Originality: 5/5

Enjoyment: 4/5

Overall: 3.83 out of 5