Runaway Booger: A Hilarious and Disgusting Picture Book About a Topsy-Turvy Day for Kids

by Matt Richtel, Lee Wildish (Illustrator)

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait . . . it’s a runaway booger!

From Lee Wildish, acclaimed children’s book illustrator of the New York Times bestselling How to Babysit a Grandpa, How to Babysit a Grandma, and How to Catch Santa, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matt Richtel comes a hilarious new picture book about a topsy-turvy day with an unlikely and disgusting turn of events.

Like such silly favorites as Walter the Farting Dog, Runaway Booger will spark giggles and demands to read it again.

Genres: Picture Books, Fiction

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 10, 2017

About the author

Matt Richtel is a best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times based in San Francisco.
He co-created and formerly wrote the syndicated comic Rudy Park under the pen name Theron Heir. Since 2012, the strip is now written by its longtime illustrator Darrin Bell.

Reviews

[Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny and gross, a great combo for a 7 year old boy! Cute illustrations as well.

[Penny lurkykitty · Rating 3 out of 5]

It will probably never be a classic children's book, but Runaway Booger is a lot of fun. The illustrations are suitably colorful and gross. My seven year old loved it.

[Steph · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hate when books force a rhyme.

Also, the story made me squirm. Ick. Their dad?!? This was just strange.

The hilarious Booger Glossary is the only reason I’m not giving this only one star.

[Titish A.K. · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Yasmin Ochoa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si la eh visto le doy un 8/10 esta chida no tanto pero si ✌

[Jana · Rating 4 out of 5]

I know - the title and subject matter of this rhyming picture book is kind of gross; but, it's still funny. Mom leaves strict instructions when she leaves, no picking and no playing ball in the house. Once she's gone, the fingers go into the noses and before you know it, there's a gigantic booger that gets out of hand. The colorful illustrations are just as silly, and I'm sure this would get tons of giggles as a read aloud to kids. In fact, I'm pretty sure I know some older elementary kids that would laugh at it, too. This would be a fun one to have on the bookshelf!

[Margie · Rating 4 out of 5]

A hilarious book written in rhyming verse with vivid illustrations to match about boogers, a subject most adults likely refrain from discussing. Young children will enjoy and delight in the mischief and mayhem surrounding the booger that got away and the unlikely way it was finally stopped. This would make a great read-aloud by a parent or teacher for children ages 3-7.

[Paula · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mom leaves Dad and the two kids "alone," and they promptly break the first, then the second, of her two rules. Way to be a consistent parent, Dad. And even though she saves the day in the end, way to cast Mom as the only authority in the house, one whose rules "we" take joy in disrespecting. Bleah.

[Dylan Teut · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not for those with weak stomachs!

[Pinky · Rating 2 out of 5]

A nose picking spree turns into a giant ball of yuck. Mom knocks it out into space.

[Jenn Swanson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Apparently when Mom is away the rest of the family sit around and pick their noses...Dad included. Then they decide it is a good idea to make a giant booger ball and play with it but it ends up terrorizing a town. My daughter enjoyed this book and thought it was hilarious. I thought it was disgusting.

[Kay · Rating 1 out of 5]

I enjoy a bit of gross humor when there is humor involved but sadly this one just isn't funny.

[Rowen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun to read out loud, clever rhymes!