Gross Universe: Your Guide to All Disgusting Things Under the Sun

by Jeff Szpirglas, Michael Cho (Illustrator)

A hilarious and eye-opening new look at the world around us.
Gross Universe is an eye-opening and sometimes stomach-turning journey of exploration into all of our own gross inner workings, and some of the more nauseating tales from nature and the world around us.
The humor of MAD magazine meets good old hard scientific fact. Always entertaining, in fact downright hilarious, author Jeff Szpirglas takes a scientific look at the many things about our physical selves and the other animals and plants around us that often go unmentioned. From our gross microscopic friends to our skin, hair, sweat, and other malodorous excretions, plus mucus, mold, acne, pus (a Perfectly Understandable Secretion), explosions, fossilized vomit, gas, and myriad other delightful subjects, this is science that will be sure to capture the attention of a young reader.
Szpirglas does not expose the sweeter side of life, but will keep young audiences enraptured, laughing, and learning. It may not always be pretty, but it’s definitely fascinating to uncover the scientific reasons for processes that happen to us and around us.

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Jeff Szpirglas has had a varied career. He's shoveled manure, worked in a steelyard (he hails from Hamilton, after all), and even frolicked in the offices at CTV Television and Chirp, chickaDEE, and OWL magazines, where he was the kids' page editor. His manure-shoveling days long behind him, Jeff currently teaches children by day and writes books/fights supervillains by night.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Mccord]

Szpirglas, J., & Cho, M. (2004). Gross Universe: Your Guide to All Disgusting Things Under the Sun. Maple Tree Pr.

Citation by: Elizabeth McCord
Type of Reference: Handbook
Description: This is a fun reference for young students to find out about things they always want to know about the universe. It contains information about things from vomit to mucus and lots of other gross things that young students find interesting.
Relevance and Relationship: Even though it contains information about gross things, young readers will find this fun to look at, giving teachers and librarians the opportunity to show students how to use references.
Purpose: The purpose of this book is to provide students with information about things that most adults don’t want to talk about.
Validity: This book received a good review from Library Media Connection.
Format: This is a 2005 print edition with 64 pages.
Arrangement and Presentation: This book contains information and pictures about the gross things in nature. It contains scientific information about the facts. It contains an index. It also included science experiments that students can try.
Professional Review: Manczuk, S. (2005) Gross universe: your guide to all disgusting things under the sun. Library Media Connection, 23(4), 89.

[Sandra Strange · Rating 3 out of 5]

Unfortunately, the illustrations for this very illuminating book are aimed at junior high or younger readers. The text would be good for everyone from about 5th grade up. In the newest magazine format, with all kinds of short bursts of text and sidebars, it treats what is gross and disgusting in nature from mucus and feces to petrified vomit. It will appeal to all junior high aged boys, but the informative nature of the text, were it illustrated a little more maturely, would make engaging meaning for older readers, as well.

[Sara Baquedano]

Bruh this some good book.

[Sheyenne · Rating 1 out of 5]

i didnt even fucking read it tf