The Day My Bum Went Psycho

by Andy Griffiths

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Zack Freeman is ready to tell his story, the story of a boy and his crazy runaway bum; the story of a crack bum-fighting unit called the B-team, a legendary Bum Hunter and his formidable daughter, and some of the biggest, ugliest and meanest bums ever to roam the face of the Earth. This is a story of courage and endurance that takes Zack on a journey across the Great Windy Desert, through the Brown Forest and over the Sea of Bums before descending into the heart of an explosive bumcano to show more confront the biggest, ugliest and meanest bum of them all. show less

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A hysterically funny story about an unlikely, clumsy, and scared little hero named Zack. In this world, butts have little stick legs and arms. They can swim, fly, have teeth, grow fins (can be Great Whites), and they can be gigantic or miniature…in short just like in real life!

Zack’s butt has runaway, again, and this time it has gone psycho. The mass butt plot is to rearrange everyone the world over, via buttcanoe, and then let butts “take their rightful places…on top of the neck!”

Zack, the famous butt-hunter’s daughter Ellanor, and the B-Team (The Slapper, The Kicker, and The Kisser) team up to take-out the Great White Butt and stop Zack’s butt too! Kisser pulls a nasty double-cross, but luck saves Zack in the end. Ned show more Smelly also stops in for more comic relief…wait this whole book is comic relief. One butt pun after another! This was a pretty stinking good book! I read it in two sittings! show less
Gross! The author warns you that this is not suitable for adults because it's disgusting. Of course, I was like, "I'm a librarian, I can handle it." Uh, no. This is just a gross overload. Everything is butt this and poop that. When I was halfway through and hadn't laughed once, I decided to just accept that I'm too old for 300 pages of potty humor. I wish you luck if you are over 13 and decide to take this on. It's nasty.
This is a hilarious book about a boy named Zack who has a runaway butt that is psycho. In this book, Zack must fight kamikaze butts, giant blowflies, and a lot of other butt puns. I really liked it because the author was really clever when making up the butt puns, and mixed in adventure with exhilaratingly funny potty humor. I highly recommend this book to all kids because kids love potty humor and hilarious books like this one. This books will give you hundreds of laughs and even eventually gross you out when you look back on Zack being sucked into the Giant Blowfly's proboscis. That's a plus!
I enjoy reading kid lit between my usual adult fare. Thought this might be fun. After reading it, tho, I don't see myself reading more along this line. Just not my cup of tea.

Will 12 year-old Zack be able to save the Earth from a take over by butts? Since his butt has run away to joing the conquering team, and has become the spokes butt, Zack feels responsible to stopping this revolution. He feels that if he can find the legendary Bum Hunter he can stop this craziness.

On his quest to find the Bum Hunter Zack winds up teaming with the Kisser and the Smacker and the Bum Hunter's daughter, Eleanor. Together they work to stop the butts from erupting a bumcano. Along the way they encounter a stink tornado, poopoises and a number of other show more creatures that belong to the species.

It is definite a kids' book for the ones that are into fart jokes and the like. There is a lot of action and the characters find that it can take team work to reach a goal. So there are some good points.

For me, I guess I grew out of gross - fart humour. I guess I'll stick with other topics. But if this gets a kid to read who wouldn't otherwise...that is a good thing!
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I purchased this book for my 11 year old for Christmas. I picked it up one day needing something to read in a hurry. It was funny, and clever, and very silly. Perfect for a boy his age. And apparently just fine for me too.
I'll admit I didn't heed the GROSS warning on the very first page, I'm glad I didn't! I was fast paced, suspenseful and funny with quite a twist near the end. I'd recommend this book to any one with a sense of humor!
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Sure, this book may seem a tad,"childish" but i really like how the story connected. The book is about a boy named zack freeman and his butt is on the loose. Like i said a tad "childish" but the author describes everything so well in the book its just plain weird. He goes in a turn of events and fights the leader of them. The main character is Zack who is irresponsible, his butt leaves a lot and gets caught back. during the time he goes to search it. He learns more about responsibility and learns he was destined to stop the revolt of butts leaving. I can relate to zack because he lost something VERY important to him and he did whatever he could to save it. The one thing i didnt like was that there was too many enemies that were show more like a boss in a video game. there was about 4 major enemies but it really was annoying to see them. I recommend this to people who like a good laugh or are unsure what to buy. show less

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Andrew Griffiths was born on September 3, 1961. He is an Australian children's book author and comedy writer. His titles include Just Tricking, Just Stupid!, Pencil of Doom, Robot Riot!, Treasure Fever!, and The 13-Storey Treehouse. His Just! series was adapted into an animated television series called What's with Andy?. He won the ABA Nielsen show more Book Data Booksellers Choice Award in 2015 for The 52-Story Treehouse. He also won the 2015 Dromkeen Medal at the State Library of Victoria. He was awarded the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the year for younger children (0 to 8 years), the 2016 Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Award for fiction for older readers and the 2016 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) for Fiction for older readers for his book, The 65-Storey Treehouse. His book, The 91-Storey Treehouse, won the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards, International Book of the Year. His recent bestsellers include The 78-Storey Treehouse, The Treehouse Fun Book 2, The Treehouse Fun Book 3, The 91-Storey Treehouse, and The 104-Story Treehouse.. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Day My Bum Went Psycho
Alternate titles
The day my butt went psycho
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First published in Australia as The Day my Bum Went Psycho, republished in the US as The Day My Butt Went Psycho.

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Children's Books, Fiction and Literature, Kids
DDC/MDS
823.914Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1900-1901-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .G88366Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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