Sam Can’t Poop, by Samantha Jeffries & Carly Nguyen, (Aug. 2024, Blue Balloon Books), $17.99, ISBN: 978-1962202657
Ages 4-8
Sam is a young girl with a tummy ache: she’s a girl with a “grumble in her belly and gas that was too smelly”. What’s the problem? She. Can’t. Poop. It’s just not happening. She tries to find ways to get things moving along, with some adorably funny moments. Inspired by author Samantha Jeffries’ turn on The Bachelor (props to my my daughter in law for filling me in: read about it here), Jeffries and Nguyen use their medical backgrounds to tell kids a story they’ll laugh at, and maybe try a vegetable or two to help them the next time they find themselves with a rumbly in the tumbly. Colorful cartoony illustrations and a fun rhyme scheme make this a cute story for preschoolers and kindergarteners, who are still developing healthy bathroom habits.
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