By Joy Masoff
An A-to-Z encyclopedia of everything disgusting, where a child flips to the grossest entry and accidentally learns something real.
This one is built like a proper encyclopedia, except every entry is something revolting. It runs A to Z through bad breath, belly-button lint, maggots, mold, mucus, slime, worms, and dozens more, and each one comes with a real fact-packed explanation and a cartoon. A child grazing for the most disgusting thing in the book keeps tripping over actual science and history on the way. It's made for flipping around, not reading cover to cover, so they follow their own nose to whatever revolts them most.
If your child won't sit still for a story but will absolutely read a page about maggots, the encyclopedia shape is perfect: no plot to keep up with, no chapter to finish, just short revolting entries they can dip into for two minutes and feel like they read something. And they did, because it's real information, well researched, about the body and animals and food and history, all wearing a disgusting disguise. It grows with a browser who likes facts in small, punchy doses.