How It Works

THE LIBRARY

BODIES, BRAINS & BOGIES

ALSO BURPS, FARTS, POOP AND SICK

AUTHOR PAUL IAN CROSS

ILLUSTRATOR STEVE BROWN

PUBLISHER WELBECK PUBLISHING

PRICE £5.99 /$9.95

RELEASE 21 JULY

It’s being sold on the promise of bogies, and bogies we get – along with farts, poop and a conveyor belt of bodily excreta. Pretty much everything you can think of that might make you gag and appeal to an eight-year-old’s puerile sense of humour is included in : pimples and pus, nose picking, urine and the ‘poop factory’ that is the human gut. And then there’s the stuff that we largely don’t expect but are equally grossed out about. Like the fact that there are over 1,000 species

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