The Promise of Booger Beard: The Rights of Diverse Silliness

Last year this book came out:

It’s pretty much just as gross as you might expect. Boy sneezes. The sneeze congeals into a massive beard o’ boogers. The boy is enraptured with his newfound facial “hair”, though his mom tells him to remove it before he eats. He’s disinclined. It was sort of a graphic novel/picture book hybrid. It also starred a Latino hero and had Spanish words nicely integrated into the text. It was, in short, the future I want to belong to.

I shall endeavor to explain. We’ve...