Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble At the Yard Sale
by William Kotzwinkle, Audrey Colman (Illustrator), Glenn Murray
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After being sold at the family's yard sale, Walter is put to use blowing up balloons for a clown who is bent on robbing banks, but he escapes and becomes a hero.Tags
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The second installment of the Walter the Farting Dog by Canadian heavyweight author Bill Kotzwinkle. This time our hero, Walter the Farting Dog, stinks his way into trouble as the unsuspecting accomplice to a bank robber. But, once again his penchant for flatulence saves the day! Audrey Colman's distinctive computer-generated artwork highlights bravely complements the hilarity. Truly a gas! Recommended for anyone wishing to laugh along with nature's favourite smelly 'trademark'. Check out the original "Walter the Farting Dog".
Walter is a happy dog but he farts constantly. One day his owners are having a yard sale. The father dislikes Walter’s habit of farting and while his children are away buying an ice cream, he sells Walter for ten dollars to a clown. Walter feels bad for leaving his family. The clown hooks Walter to a machine to inflate the balloons with gas. He takes balloons to a bank, pops them to stun the guards and robs the bank. When Walter understands how he was used by the clown, he decides to help police capture him. He becomes a hero and returns to his family.
50 months - as always O enjoys this series. The stories are always well written with Walter always ending up the hero. But I have never enjoyed the illustration style but I will give the artist credit it is unique.
This book is the kinda funny the kid's parents sometimes won't like until they are alone and can giggle freely. My husband and I are buying the Spanish translation since we both speak Spanish. Can't wait to get it and read it to the grandkids.
Grades 1-8. Walter is at it again with his farts saving the day. The book was great about teaching kids to treat everybody the same even if somebody is a little bit different
A funny funny book. Children especially like it because of the immature humor.
My 6-year-old son thinks this is hilarious.
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William Kotzwinkle was born in 1938 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He attended Rider College and Pennsylvania State University.He worked as an editor and writer in the 1960s. William Kotzwinkle is an accomplished author who is best known for his book of the film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, but who has produced a range of work for both adults and show more children that often transgresses genre boundaries and the distinction between serious and popular fiction. Beginning as a children's writer with The Fireman, he then published novels for adults such as Hermes 3000, The Fan Man, and Queen of Swords, which began to establish him as an original and distinctive novelist. But it was Doctor Rat that made his reputation as a powerful fantasy writer with a sharp satirical edge. The novel focuses upon laboratory rats whose spokesman, the Doctor Rat of the title, eventually escapes from the vast laboratory where experiments on his fellow-creatures are taking place, and whose adventures are interwoven with shorter tales told by animals of different kinds who finally try to form a whole that will make humans more peaceful and benign. But they are all killed. William Kotzwinkle is a novelist and poet, who is known for his broad range of style and subject. He is a two-time recipient of the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. He lives with his wife, author Elizabeth Gundy, in Maine. He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977. He published The Million Dollar Bear in 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- For everyone who's ever felt misjudged or misunderstood
- First words
- All the other tables at the big yard sale were crowded with customers.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"No one could be more proud than we are," said Father. "Proud to call Walter our very own."
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- Variant titles: "Walter the Farting Dog Farts Again" (U.K.) and "Walter the Farting Dog: Trouble at the Garage Sale" (Australia)
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