Review: Throwing the Bomb?
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2013
Flatulence has been, and will always be, one of the greatest sources of spontaneous combustion (pun intended)  of humor in all societies. `Cutting the cheese' has always caused the most embarrassment and mirth of all social improprieties, and it is almost impossible for people not to react with laughter (while holding their noses) when someone lets one fly.Jose Fernandez' Arthur Pong And His Wonderful Song is unapologetic bathroom humor geared for kids, written in limerick style that targets the primary school audience. Arthur's `butt bombs' are the stuff that legends are made of, permeating the neighborhood, the classroom, and eventually becomes part of the atmosphere and touches the whole world. We doubt very much that this is going to be found in grade school classrooms, but in school libraries, kids are going to have to put their name on a long reserve list. This one promises to be dog-eared (if not a schoolyard legend) in a short time.The redeeming social value of a book like this (kinda like a pamphlet in twenty pages' length) is the fact that kids will be reading this outside the classroom. That, in and of itself, is a good thing. Plus it brings them together and makes them laugh. It may not be the principal's choice, but Jose Fernandez' Arthur Pong And His Wonderful Song may well be a kiddie favorite.