Review: Grossly Amusing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2013
This story was kind of gross and disgusting, but clever and humorous at the same time. It is exactly the kind of story young kids will love! Briefly, a mother asks her daughter if she's seen her little brother. She hems and haws a bit, before admitting that she thinks she may have somehow accidently flushed him down the toilet. Even grosser, her mother tells her she has to go down into the toilet to find and return with her little brother.The girl holds her breath and dives into the toilet, twisting and turning through the pipes, and finally popping out in the underground sewer city, otherwise known as Yuk Kingdom, where she meets all kinds of creepy characters. Eventually she hears her brother calling to her, but when she finds him he doesn't want to go home; he's having too much fun in the sewer!Everything comes out in the end... wait, even that sounds gross now. Everything turns out fine in the end (that's better), and the family is reunited just in time for baths and dinner. It doesn't say, but I presume they all lived happily ever after.Like I said, it's kind of gross, but just the sort of gross kids love. I suppose there may be a lesson in this book... something along the lines of "don't flush your brother down the toilet", or something similar. Either way, it's an entertaining read, and one the kids will want to read over and over again.