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Everybody barfs. Dogs, cats, chickens, alligators, and even you. It happens to everyone, and sometimes it even happens . . . at school.
With her characteristic humor and compassion, Nancy Carlson helps young readers through what is often a scary and embarrassing rite of passage. Sometimes you barf. But it's OK. You get better!
Author Notes
Children's author and illustrator, Nancy Carlson was born and raised in Edina, Minnesota. Ever since kindergarten she knew that was what she wanted to do. She attended the Minneapolis College of Art and Design where she majored in printmaking.
Nancy has written and illustrated over 40 titles. Some of her titles include the Louann Pig series, Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come, How to Lose All Your Friends, and It's Not My Fault. They address some of the challenges faced by kids and how to positively deal with them.
In recognition of her works, Nancy has earned several awards including the Children's Choice Award from the International Reading Association and Children's Book Council and the Minnesota Children's Museum Great Friends to Kids Award.
Nancy currently resides in Minnesota.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
School Library Journal Review
K-Gr 3-A straight-talking young girl candidly discusses the fear and embarrassment of throwing up at school. When the flu bug strikes, she starts "to feel queasy," and all efforts to resist being sick prove futile. The aftermath include a janitor cleaning up the classroom and a respite in the nurse's office. Following a few days of rest and recuperation at home, the child returns to school, and the text reads, "No one will be mad at you for barfing....You have a great day, even though...you have to retake the math test you barfed on." Carlson's cartoon illustrations have just the right dose of gross detail. Endpapers reiterate the message that "Everyone barfs once in a while" and showcase dozens of green-faced animals, people, and even a snowman. Getting sick is never fun, but this reassuring and humorous book makes the experience much more tolerable.-Linda Ludke, London Public Library, Ontario, Canada (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Publisher's Weekly Review
There's nothing dignified or pleasant about vomiting, whether you're the one doing it or simply in the area when it's going on. For kids, the experience can be particularly upsetting, especially if one gets sick at school. Carlson (Zip It!) clearly knows all of this well, and she writes with empathy, reassurance, and a "them's the breaks, kid" brand of humor as she follows a girl's bout with the flu. "When that flu bug finally picks you... at first you really try not to barf..." she writes, as a giant green germ excitedly watches the girl's face go deep green. "But it's no use. You will barf. With any luck you will barf on your math test." (Not only does Carlson show the girl doing just that, she plops her text on top of the torrent of puke pouring from the girl's mouth.) But sickness is fleeting, Carlson explains, and her matter-of-fact writing and visual demonstrations that everything from aardvarks to leprechauns throw up, too, are a kind of medicine in themselves. Ages 5-8. Agent: Susan Cohen, Writers House. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Horn Book Review
A girl explains the ways that people and animals experience vomiting ("Dogs act normal after they barf...But barfing is scary for a kid!") and the realities of upchucking at school ("everyone will go nuts!"). This is Everyone Poops for older kids and with Carlson's trademark unpretentious illustrations and hand-holding narration. Regarding her depiction of the book's subject: it doesn't look like confetti. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Everything you ever wanted to know about throwing up...and why you shouldn't be embarrassed. A little girl and her dog, Archie, take readers through this primer. Everybody barfs once in a while, she says, and illustrates her point with a veritable zoo of barfing animals, from aardvark to platypus. (In this book, when something or someone is about to barf, its face gets amusingly green, except for lizards, which get pink.) When a dog barfs, it gives plenty of warningand after it does, you might find something you've been looking for, like a missing sock. The flu could cause you to barf, and if it happens at school, better hope you do it on a math test. It summons the janitor in a hazmat suit for cleanup with his "special barf cleanup machine" and sends you home to a barf bucket. Once you're eating solid food, it's back to school! Everybody welcomes you warmly, and it turns into a great day...except for that math test you have to retake. Maybe if you manage to barf again...? Another page of green-faced barfersclown, caterpillar, leprechaun, etc.and the little girl recaps. Archie barfs again, and she finds her other sock! Carlson's cartoons are as goofily gross as the text, but they exert a sort of cute fascination anyway. A delightful and helpful treatment of a somewhat taboo topic. (Picture book. 3-6) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Readers need but glance at the endpapers, crammed with green-faced, bulgy-cheeked critters, to know what to expect here: vomit, and lots of it. Though fictional, Carlson's book acts as a practical what-to-expect guide for losing your lunch. A straight-talking young lass gets us off to a good start: a two-page spread of spewing animals. Everyone, you see, engages in the ol' Technicolor yawn. For a dog, explains the girl, hurling is no biggie, but barfing is scary to a kid! She recounts how an icky flu bug (from a school lunch, natch) makes her queasy and how she tries to resist horking, but, ultimately, upchuck will not be denied. When you barf at school, she adds, be prepared, because everyone will go nuts! Yes, schooltime cookie tossings are traumatic no one likes to see the janitor and his special barf cleanup machine but Carlson's message is that it's normal, temporary, and you'll even be welcomed back. Giddily illustrated with glorious cartoon grossness, this is a great normalizing device for all those reluctant regurgitators out there.--Kraus, Daniel Copyright 2014 Booklist