Nancy Krulik’s Burp or Treat… Smell My Feet is a Halloween giggle for 6 year olds, starring a boy whose magic burps make him do the one thing he’s trying not to.<\/p>\n
George Brown has a secret. Ever since a wish on a shooting star half came true, a super burp comes fizzing up from his belly and grabs control of his arms and legs. Whatever the burp wants, George has to do. And the burp has terrible manners.<\/p>\n
It starts in the shop, where the burp makes George eat a bag of candy corn he doesn’t even like. Then it rolls him on his back in a snake-haired monster mask, waving his stinky feet at a crying toddler. (You can probably guess what he shouts.) His mum’s face goes from red to purple.<\/p>\n
This is George Brown, Class Clown at Halloween, and there are two stories in the book. In the first, a prankster calling itself the Phantom starts turning the school upside down in the week before the Halloween parade. Desks flipped over. A rubber worm in the spaghetti. A mask on the science skeleton. Snooty Louie decides straight away that George must be behind it, and soon half the school is whispering too.<\/p>\n
That’s the bit that’ll really hit home with a lot of kids. It’s SO unfair! George hasn’t done anything, but because he’s the funny one everyone assumes it’s him. Even his friends look at him a bit sideways for a moment. So George gets out his notebook, writes down every clue and sets out to prove it wasn’t him.<\/p>\n
The second story takes the gang to a pumpkin patch, where the burp picks the worst possible moment to come back. It’s also the one where George worries that a friend might be moving away.<\/p>\n
It’s full of the kind of word play young readers love. Bubbles that “kickboxed his kidneys and boomeranged from his bladder”. A burp so loud it knocks a mask out of Alex’s hands. It’s very silly and very American (candy, sneakers, fourth grade), which is part of the charm.<\/p>\n
Who doesn’t secretly love a book where the naughty stuff isn’t really the hero’s fault? If your reader likes a mystery with their toilet humour, this one ticks both boxes.<\/p>\n
George once played pranks on a girl called Katie Kazoo at his old school, and she has her own series. Try I Hate Rules, where Katie (who once burped in front of her whole class too) is fed up with her strict teacher. And a magic wind could turn her into somebody else at any moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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