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Tag: gross books

December 15, 2025 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2025 Gross Books for Kids

Includes everything from tiny head denizens (a.k.a. lice) to collectable "stones" to snot snot snot snot!

December 24, 2024 by Betsy Bird

31 Days, 31 Lists: 2024 Gross Books for Kids

Consider this one for the kiddos. If it's gross, it's gonna be here.

December 10, 2023 by Betsy Bird

31 Day, 31 Lists: 2023 Gross Books

While it may not win me any awards for literary excellence, here are the books that make you say, "UGH!!!" running a gamut of ages.

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31 Days, 31 Lists: 2022 Gross Books for Kids

December 10, 2022 by Betsy Bird

We're making a slight deviation away from our regularly scheduled picture books today to bring you some truly and thoroughly disgusting titles. Celebrating titles unafraid of bodily functions, blood, and other seriously icky elements.

Review of the Day: Zombie Makers by Rebecca L. Johnson

September 15, 2012 by Betsy Bird

Zombie Makers: True Stories of Nature’s Undead By Rebecca L. Johnson Millbrook Press (an imprint of Lerner) $30.60 ISBN: 978-0761386339 Ages 9 and up On shelves now There’s this podcast I like to listen to called RadioLab, which is essentially just a show for people who like kooky science but are still a little foggy […]

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