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Kid Potato: Welcome to My World
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Welcome to the wacky world of Spuddy in this zany new series! Readers of all ages will be giggling along through the ups and downs of life, family, friendship, and potatoes.
Spudbert (aka Spuddy) is a potato who lives in a town famous for its donut hole factory, clown burial ground, and the world’s biggest roll of toilet paper. It’s the perfect backdrop for Spuddy and his eccentric school friends Chomp and Raven to embark on ridiculous adventures. From helping an alien who crash-lands inside Chomp’s head to doing a science project with Kid Evil (rumor has it that he doesn’t even wear socks!), the absurd fun never stops. This delightful laugh-out-loud new series is sure to entertain readers (and potato lovers) of all ages.
Spudbert (aka Spuddy) is a potato who lives in a town famous for its donut hole factory, clown burial ground, and the world’s biggest roll of toilet paper. It’s the perfect backdrop for Spuddy and his eccentric school friends Chomp and Raven to embark on ridiculous adventures. From helping an alien who crash-lands inside Chomp’s head to doing a science project with Kid Evil (rumor has it that he doesn’t even wear socks!), the absurd fun never stops. This delightful laugh-out-loud new series is sure to entertain readers (and potato lovers) of all ages.
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240 pages, Hardcover
Published May 5, 2026
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May 5, 2026
It's a potato party!
Spudbert (Spuddy) is a middle school potato who just wants to have adventures with his best friends Chomp and Raven. Told through different stories, Spuddy explores all that Chudland has to offer while also getting into hilarious hijinks.
Kid Potato is a middle grade book that will be a new favourite for kids, especially with locales like Dog Poo Hill, which I know my nephews will be keeled over laughing at that. The wacky situations are innocent romps for kids who want to read something that will keep them entertained and me them laugh; it's sure to be a staple of 2026 school read-a-thons.
I especially loved the chapter about the speciality toilet that his grandmother has in her care home that's capable of creating a vortex, amongst many other things.
I look forward to seeing what Spuddy gets into with the next volume!
Thank you to NetGalley and Clarkson Potter/ Ten Speed Press for the opportunity to read this book for free in exchange for my honest review.
Spudbert (Spuddy) is a middle school potato who just wants to have adventures with his best friends Chomp and Raven. Told through different stories, Spuddy explores all that Chudland has to offer while also getting into hilarious hijinks.
Kid Potato is a middle grade book that will be a new favourite for kids, especially with locales like Dog Poo Hill, which I know my nephews will be keeled over laughing at that. The wacky situations are innocent romps for kids who want to read something that will keep them entertained and me them laugh; it's sure to be a staple of 2026 school read-a-thons.
I especially loved the chapter about the speciality toilet that his grandmother has in her care home that's capable of creating a vortex, amongst many other things.
I look forward to seeing what Spuddy gets into with the next volume!
Thank you to NetGalley and Clarkson Potter/ Ten Speed Press for the opportunity to read this book for free in exchange for my honest review.
July 19, 2026
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Spudbert lives with his mother, father, sister Parka, and dog Ollie. He isn't particulary fond of school, and doesn't do as well as his friend Raven, although he knows not to cheat from her papers when she is distracted. He also has a metal robot friend, Chomp. Spuddy, aka "Kid Potato" embarks on a variety of every day adventures. These goofy antics include an alien getting stuck in Chomp's head and needing to be sent home, and Kid Potato being paired with a vampire-like classmate named Kid Evil for science fair. The two construct a project measuring how eating cheese before bedtime changes people's dreams, but don't win. Kid potato goes to visit his elderly grandmother, and gets involved with her high end toilet, the Flusterton, when it goes rogue and causes havoc by sucking things into itself. Even though he's not a competitive bowler, he decides to enter the Croco Bowl tournament so he can beat nemesis Finchely. Finally, we find out more about Ollie's past as there is a pet day at the school and Ollie runs off. There are several pages of puzzles at the back of the book for those who like activity books.
Strengths: Like Kinney's Wimpy Kid series, Kid Potato has little discernable plot, but an endless supply of gags, jokes, silly illustrations, and potty humor, so I can see this being very popular in my library, along with books like Keller's Arnie the Doughnut and Pastis' Timmy Failure books. It's been harder to find good notebooks novels since graphic novels have really taken off, but for some reason, graphic novels tend to skew towards female characters. The constant stream of zany takes, like the school being across from a prison and next to a sewage processing plant, the alien destroying Kid Potato's school and home, and the sentient toilet are paired with MAD Magazine type illustrations. I can imagine this being a great choice for a giggle inducing read aloud for first graders, who will unabashedly love the potty humor and slapstick comedy, but it's also good for middle school readers who want a fun break from all of the serious books language arts teachers assign. The sequel, Fry and Stop Me, will be published in September 2026.
Weaknesses: Readers in the US will miss the joke with Parka's name, since we don't called baked potatoes JACKET potatoes. Since this was first published in the UK, it does seem very British, but other UK notebook novels, like Pichon's Tom Gates Clover's Rory Branagan: Detective, and Berger's The Pudding Problem have done well in my library.
What I really think: This was not a personal favorite of mine, since I have never actually been a twelve-year-old boy and don't particularly care for the low brow humor. Will fans of Pilkey's Dog Man, who seem to be legion, enjoy this? Absolutely. I'll definitely recommend this a lot at the beginning of the school year in order to get kids to read, and hope that they will use this as a brigdge to more challenging books like Hall's fantastic new This Could All Go Bad or, aptly, Costner's My Life as a Potato.
Spudbert lives with his mother, father, sister Parka, and dog Ollie. He isn't particulary fond of school, and doesn't do as well as his friend Raven, although he knows not to cheat from her papers when she is distracted. He also has a metal robot friend, Chomp. Spuddy, aka "Kid Potato" embarks on a variety of every day adventures. These goofy antics include an alien getting stuck in Chomp's head and needing to be sent home, and Kid Potato being paired with a vampire-like classmate named Kid Evil for science fair. The two construct a project measuring how eating cheese before bedtime changes people's dreams, but don't win. Kid potato goes to visit his elderly grandmother, and gets involved with her high end toilet, the Flusterton, when it goes rogue and causes havoc by sucking things into itself. Even though he's not a competitive bowler, he decides to enter the Croco Bowl tournament so he can beat nemesis Finchely. Finally, we find out more about Ollie's past as there is a pet day at the school and Ollie runs off. There are several pages of puzzles at the back of the book for those who like activity books.
Strengths: Like Kinney's Wimpy Kid series, Kid Potato has little discernable plot, but an endless supply of gags, jokes, silly illustrations, and potty humor, so I can see this being very popular in my library, along with books like Keller's Arnie the Doughnut and Pastis' Timmy Failure books. It's been harder to find good notebooks novels since graphic novels have really taken off, but for some reason, graphic novels tend to skew towards female characters. The constant stream of zany takes, like the school being across from a prison and next to a sewage processing plant, the alien destroying Kid Potato's school and home, and the sentient toilet are paired with MAD Magazine type illustrations. I can imagine this being a great choice for a giggle inducing read aloud for first graders, who will unabashedly love the potty humor and slapstick comedy, but it's also good for middle school readers who want a fun break from all of the serious books language arts teachers assign. The sequel, Fry and Stop Me, will be published in September 2026.
Weaknesses: Readers in the US will miss the joke with Parka's name, since we don't called baked potatoes JACKET potatoes. Since this was first published in the UK, it does seem very British, but other UK notebook novels, like Pichon's Tom Gates Clover's Rory Branagan: Detective, and Berger's The Pudding Problem have done well in my library.
What I really think: This was not a personal favorite of mine, since I have never actually been a twelve-year-old boy and don't particularly care for the low brow humor. Will fans of Pilkey's Dog Man, who seem to be legion, enjoy this? Absolutely. I'll definitely recommend this a lot at the beginning of the school year in order to get kids to read, and hope that they will use this as a brigdge to more challenging books like Hall's fantastic new This Could All Go Bad or, aptly, Costner's My Life as a Potato.
Review of advance copy received from Publisher
Very silly mostly-illustrated chapter book.... about a potato.
Whizzed through this in about half an hour. Primary-aged readers will like this for the text-light content, quirky themes and barmy humour.
In several chapters, Spuddy the potato takes us on a madcap journey through several escapades in his life - doing a school project with another kid called... Kid Evil. Meeting an alien who's landed nearby and wants to go home. Chapters about toilets. Pets. Weird best friends.
It was all very bizarre, lots of black and white illustrations make up the majority of this 200+ page length. My 8-year-old saw me reading it and wants to try it next, and I know when we take it in to his class they'll all take it in turns and giggle away.
Very much the right sort of read for 7-10 year olds who like an easy read and ridiculous content.
With thanks to the publisher for providing a sample reading copy.
Whizzed through this in about half an hour. Primary-aged readers will like this for the text-light content, quirky themes and barmy humour.
In several chapters, Spuddy the potato takes us on a madcap journey through several escapades in his life - doing a school project with another kid called... Kid Evil. Meeting an alien who's landed nearby and wants to go home. Chapters about toilets. Pets. Weird best friends.
It was all very bizarre, lots of black and white illustrations make up the majority of this 200+ page length. My 8-year-old saw me reading it and wants to try it next, and I know when we take it in to his class they'll all take it in turns and giggle away.
Very much the right sort of read for 7-10 year olds who like an easy read and ridiculous content.
With thanks to the publisher for providing a sample reading copy.
April 27, 2026
This book had similar vibes to Diary of a Wimpy Kid and DogMan. The main character is a middle school potato named Spuddy who hangs out with his friends, Chomp and Raven. We loved that all of the teachers were vegetables and Carson’s favorite scenes included aliens and a robot toilet. This book was 100% written for an audience of elementary school boys and judging by the laughter from my son while he was reading it, the writing was perfectly engaging! The bright illustrations and limited words on the page make it perfect for early readers in 2nd/3rd grade and is a great book for students who tend to choose graphic novels. Thanks to NetGalley and the team at Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed Press for providing us an early copy of this book to read. This book comes out on May 5th and we’re looking forward to Kid Potato’s future adventures when book #2 in the series is released in September!
February 12, 2026
Perfectly adult-proof stories regarding our spud-like hero, evil classmates, killer toilets, alien friends and more. Designed to be daft, it's built of copious high-impact illustrations providing the jokes with a few of those nasty word things in the way as well. In actual fact, a lot of the pictures have words, with all the speech balloons being the quippage, often in that Simpsons-esque way of presenting the plot, then cutting away to something funny and coming back beats later. I found it a bit of an ordeal, to be honest, but to mark it as per the target reader this is a silly, fun, and very simple entertainment.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I thought that this was a great little book and a fun story.
The book has some great illustrations and they are perfect for the story.
It was easy to follow and understand and I liked the layout and length of the chapters.
My daughter read it with ease and enjoyed it and we are already looking forward to reading the next book in the series!
It is 4 stars from me for this one - a great addition for any home library and primary school library too - I can see this being a really popular one with the children as it has some great characters!
Very highly recommended!
The book has some great illustrations and they are perfect for the story.
It was easy to follow and understand and I liked the layout and length of the chapters.
My daughter read it with ease and enjoyed it and we are already looking forward to reading the next book in the series!
It is 4 stars from me for this one - a great addition for any home library and primary school library too - I can see this being a really popular one with the children as it has some great characters!
Very highly recommended!
Review of advance copy received from Edelweiss+
This is perfect for the Big Nate set. I admit I laughed out loud several times.
April 9, 2026
I think this is a funny,happy and silly book i really recommend to kids 4-10
May 11, 2026
A very good , funny book. Recommended for bunny vs monkey lovers.👍
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
This lively and entertaining children’s book is made up of several short, separate stories.
Each story places the main character in a new situation or adventure, keeping the reading experience fresh and engaging. The individual stories stand well on their own, making the book ideal for short reading sessions, independent reading or bedtime.
The central character is cheerful and cheeky, with a personality that shines through in every story.
The variety of the separate stories helps maintain interest and gives young readers something new to enjoy each time they return to the book.
Overall, this is a fun, light-hearted collection that offers plenty of entertainment and variety.
Each story places the main character in a new situation or adventure, keeping the reading experience fresh and engaging. The individual stories stand well on their own, making the book ideal for short reading sessions, independent reading or bedtime.
The central character is cheerful and cheeky, with a personality that shines through in every story.
The variety of the separate stories helps maintain interest and gives young readers something new to enjoy each time they return to the book.
Overall, this is a fun, light-hearted collection that offers plenty of entertainment and variety.
Review of advance copy received from Netgalley
I want to start off this review by saying thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read this before it is published.
I absolutely adored this book. I laughed and I know my kiddos will too so I will most definitely preordering it.
Spudbert aka Kid Potato is so funny, his adventures throughout the book made me laugh.
I love that he introduces his friends and family (including his super annoying little sister Parka!)
This is a cute read that I’m sure kids will definitely enjoy.
I absolutely adored this book. I laughed and I know my kiddos will too so I will most definitely preordering it.
Spudbert aka Kid Potato is so funny, his adventures throughout the book made me laugh.
I love that he introduces his friends and family (including his super annoying little sister Parka!)
This is a cute read that I’m sure kids will definitely enjoy.
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