Thunder Down Under

This is such a wonderfully funny book. I'm smiling just thinking about it. It had me chuckling from start to finish. I bought it for my nephew and I'm sure his mum and dad will love it just as much! Very clever and with a good moral too! Very engaging for the little ones!

My daughter loves this book. It's about farts so couldn't go too wrong in her eyes

The title caught me in the library - it's not just my five-year-old that giggles at books about bottom burps. Also, we like Timothy Knapman, so the green cover was always going to come home with us.Definitely a winner, a story very simply about all the animals trying to work out who has made that terrible sound and smell.With a dash of scientific investigation about it - it was grand so must be from a large bottom, it was bubbly and swampy, bouncy and bumpy.. crocodile? Kangaroo?I laughed aloud reading about someone 'cutting the cheese'... most unprofessional! But as my boy was also laughing, it didn't really matter.So just who made the "ripe trouser cough"?! You'll have to read it and see.Irreverent, a little bit rude, but a great vocabulary builder (in all the wrong ways!). Oh and there's a lesson about not discounting anything/anyone just because they are small.But mostly it's a blast (pun intended). Just let them have fun!For ages 3-7.

Down in Australia the animals all rushed out to play in the summer sun, but not long into their playtime a nasty, horrible, disgusting smell surrounded them and turned the air sour. One of them had had a bottom burp and they each accused one another of being the stinker, but who could it be?From reading the very short blurb for this book I knew it was going to be funny, I mean what child doesn’t find someone making a smell funny, add into the mix a load of random animals all accusing each other of being the culprit and you have a very humorous book.I can see some of the parents out there getting a little hot under the collar about the word ‘fart’ being used, as I know many don’t allow their children to use that word, and when my children were little I didn’t either. If I’m honest my kids are 15, 18, and 24 and I still tell them to use a different word because I hate it. However, the book still made me laugh. If your children are too young to read then you could change the word for something you don’t mind.Thunder Down Under is illustrated with full-page, colourful, bright images. The text changes throughout in size, boldness, how it is written, but this brings the story alive. I love the ending and the little nugget of wisdom that is shared.Depending on how you feel about farts in books you will either love it or hate it. I can see children loving it and giggling the whole way through.*I received a free copy of this book, which I voluntarily reviewed

My daughter borrowed this book from the local library and we where both crying laughing by the end, it's just so funny. Will be buying our own copy. Warning the word fart is mentioned, if you don't like that word don't buy this book.Not one for them to read alone, there are some complex words for children my daughter liked sitting with me through it. But what a fantastic memory we'll have.

My grandson loves this book , funny even for adults , would recommend *