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published
October 10th 2001
by North Atlantic Books, Frog Ltd.
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Hardcover, 32 pages
isbn
1583940537
(isbn13: 9781583940532)
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We hold this truth to be self-evident: farting makes kids laugh. Walter, an apologetic-looking dog adopted from the pound, passes gas morning, noon,...more
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dog fart likers
If this book had been around when I was little, I probably would have wept with gratitiude. As it stands, it mainly brings to mind just how unpleasant dog farts are. Really nothing funny about them at all. They don't even make a funny noise most of the time. Occasionally they might emit a "suss". Nothing funny about suss. You get up on stage and say "suss" into the mike, they're liable to boo you right out of the place.
Dog farts make a room smell like steaming, pu...more
Dog farts make a room smell like steaming, pu...more
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Read in October, 2005
I read this one with Alex while I was teaching him reading a couple years ago. I really did not like it. Other than the subject matter, it isn't written well and the illustrations are odd and don't make me want to look at them. There are much better kids books out there.
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Walter the Farting Dog is very funny in English, but in Latin its totally hilarious. In my bookshop, I sell WtFD to people buying little boys a present, but Walter Canis Inflatus is bought buy grown men, mostly lawyers and bankers and girls buying them presents.
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Rife with middle school humor, this could aptly be billed as having been written "expressively with the adolescent male in mind." A little too flat (ulent) for my taste but then I'm not a twelve-year-old boy.
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I read this in a bookstore and just think this is one of the funniest books ever. Everything about it is well done.
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Read in December, 2006
Well it's a children's book, and silly as hell, and all I can say is that it made me laugh so hard that other people were looking at me like they thought I was nuts.
As in his writing for adults, Kotzwinkle's prose is a textbook example on how to avoid extra words. He's a master at creating humorous rhythm in his sentence construction, so that sometimes he can get a laugh by simply throwing an oddball cadence into the mix. One sentence had only two words: Walter farted. With the context and b...more
As in his writing for adults, Kotzwinkle's prose is a textbook example on how to avoid extra words. He's a master at creating humorous rhythm in his sentence construction, so that sometimes he can get a laugh by simply throwing an oddball cadence into the mix. One sentence had only two words: Walter farted. With the context and b...more
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Read in January, 2001
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This book is so funny your kids will pass out from laughing - or is that the gas?
Poor Walter can't get no love. He's stinky. He farts all the time. No one can stand to be around him. But don't worry, he will get the chance to prove himself, and everyone will fall in love with Walter, though they still won't want to be anywhere near him!
* I read this to my class because I let each one choose a book they wanted me to read. It figures that a kid would bring this one in. I rolled my eyes the...more
Poor Walter can't get no love. He's stinky. He farts all the time. No one can stand to be around him. But don't worry, he will get the chance to prove himself, and everyone will fall in love with Walter, though they still won't want to be anywhere near him!
* I read this to my class because I let each one choose a book they wanted me to read. It figures that a kid would bring this one in. I rolled my eyes the...more
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Read in May, 2007
I read this book to my students & they adored it. Many of them took it home to read with their parents...that to me is awesome. :) Good book on compassion for kids...
(I originally bought this book to send to my 3-year old niece so that my mother would have to read it to her and naturally, it would torture my mother to say the word "fart" a million times over...;) )
(I originally bought this book to send to my 3-year old niece so that my mother would have to read it to her and naturally, it would torture my mother to say the word "fart" a million times over...;) )
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My mom was having a rough time of things, so we went to a bookstore, because is there really any better place to go to cheer up? We saw this book, and I made her sit down while I read it to her out loud. She was very embarrassed, but also very amused. We both know a Walter. Everyone knows a Walter.
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Mother's of boys
We found this one at a small bookstore while on vacation and didn't know it was the beginning of a larger series. It cracked E. up on the first night and still does. It's a silly book, but entertaining.
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the latin version is the best, although this is good as well!
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Read in January, 2003
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aunts and uncles of small children
The story is funny, but it's the illustrations that take this book into the realm of "must own". Walter is a good dog who just happens to have, hum, digestive difficulties. His children love him, but Mom, Dad, the Uncle, and the Vet decide that Walter has to go. Only a last minute triumph by a very flatulent Walter saves the day.
I read this to the kids subsituting the word "tooting" for "farting" - on the direction of their parents. I think we should go ahead a...more
I read this to the kids subsituting the word "tooting" for "farting" - on the direction of their parents. I think we should go ahead a...more
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Kieth H.
I learned that Kieth's dog Mendel should have been named Walter- trust me, his diet of maalox and kangaroo meat helps, but it didn't alleviate the problem completely.
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Anyone with preschool aged kids.
Hilarious. May be more funny for the adult reading it than for the kid.
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I suppose this book and its followups was aimed for flatulent grandfathers to buy and read to the curious next generation. But just saying the semi-forbidden word will turn a room full of toddlers into fits of laughter, so the book might be a source of shared delight between reader and listener. I confess that my only experience with this was talking with a savvy children's librarian - aren't they ALL - at my local branch and reading it to satisfy my curiosity. She had reported that it was a ...more
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Perhaps not the highest literary achievement of the century, but i sat in barnes and noble shaking with laughter. Gunnar did not find the book amusing at all - he is the least scatalogically inclined in his humor of all my kids, Hannah thought the people looked too freaky. I liked the message about using our under-rated "gifts..."
He would be a handy dog to have. We have resorted to blaming an imaginary pet skunk for flatulence in our home...i mean, of course, on the terribly rare o...more
He would be a handy dog to have. We have resorted to blaming an imaginary pet skunk for flatulence in our home...i mean, of course, on the terribly rare o...more
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There is nothing funnier than farting. No matter how highbrow you think you are, we all do it and if you don't laugh at it, you've had your nose cut off. And your ears. In which case we should be laughing at you instead.
Walter is an absolute delight. It's a great pleasure to find books that parents enjoy reading to their kids. This isn't quite a five-star because it's absolutely surpassed by next couple of books in the series, but it's still a cracker.
Walter is an absolute delight. It's a great pleasure to find books that parents enjoy reading to their kids. This isn't quite a five-star because it's absolutely surpassed by next couple of books in the series, but it's still a cracker.
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A stunning and delightful tale of a farting dog which bucks the stigmatism of societies taboos with his wild and stinky misadventures. I'm all the way through page 2 already but I have to put it down often due to difficulty with some of the more ostentatious vernacular employed throughout this delectable read. Permit me a quote from the book: “I’m salivating, did you know?” How cheeky! That line is literary genius.
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