Doing Business
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
This bright, brilliant, and drily humorous new picture book is the perfect go-to guide for going Number Two.
Someone has done business where they’re not supposed to. But who was it?
Suspense builds as suspects are rhythmically, methodically eliminated. We know it wasn’t the baby (diaper), or Daddy (bathroom), or the lion at the zoo (too risky).
There’s a place for everything, and Shawn Harris’s snappy text and stylish, accessible art shine in this universal, hilarious, and perfectly paced picture book about the right place for bathroom business.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Harris (Have You Ever Seen a Flower?) takes a time-honored toilet training euphemism and runs with it, using poster-like ink-and-brush art and saturated digital colors to infuse every page with mischievous energy and genuine encouragement. "Whose business is this?" asks the narrator, as an authoritative, orange-toned hand points to a pile of poo on the carpet. Readers know the answer, having seen a fluffy white dog wearing a bright blue coat guiltily hiding beneath a desk (blue haberdashery is a visual leitmotif). But Harris checks in with other poopers-in-progress anyway, underscoring that doing one's business is perfectly natural in a species-appropriate place. En route to the book's close, the survey of would-be rug-soilers reveals whom the culprit isn't. The pile is too small for an elephant and too big for a ladybug, grown-ups poop in the toilet (clutching their phones and laptops), and "Bears do business in the woods. Cats do business in a box." Cleverly, Harris incidentally categorizes readers as part of the smart set: upon noticing a full kids' potty, the narrator asks, "Wait. Who did this business? You did this business? This is good. Good business." It's poop positivity at its best. Ages 3–5.
