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For young children and adults alike¿ poop happens! When it does what is needed is determination, optimism, and laughing in the face of adversity! When poop happens ¿Poop Happens!¿ the book delivers filling minds with mirth!
About the author
Vice magazine has called
Craig Yoe the "Indiana Jones of comics historians."
Publisher Weekly says he's the "archivist of the ridiculous and the sublime" and calls his work "brilliant."
The Onion calls him "the celebrated designer,"
The Library Journal, "a comics guru." BoingBoing hails him "a fine cartoonist and a comig book historian of the first water." Yoe was Creative Director/Vice President/General Manager of Jim Henson's Muppets, and a Creative Director at Nickelodeon and Disney. Craig has won an Eisner Award and the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.
Summary
Beginning Readers Learn with Potty Trained Animals That Poop Happens
“I keep buying books from Yoe Books as gifts, then keeping them for myself!” —
Mark Hamill, American actor of
Star Wars fame
From Craig Yoe, former Creative Director, VP, and GM of Jim Henson's Muppets─and former Creative Director at Nickelodeon and Disney─comes a book for potty training toddlers and their parents. Poop Happens is a beginning reader book that introduces potty trained animals to kids ages 1-3.A little bit of good-natured irrelevance and a whole lot of toilet training laughs. Using bright, fun art, playful and jubilant verse, and a wry sense of humor, Craig Yoe sends a think-positive message to toddlers and parents experiencing potty training. Engaging questions are posed about a delightful menagerie of animals for kids with some surprise humans at the end.
A beginning reader book with plenty of chuckles. Craig Yoe has been collecting jokes and kids’ humor for years. A retired pastor, he believes that there is nothing better in life than making kids laugh. Now, in
Poop Happens, Craig helps you and your toddler get through the often difficult potty training stage.
A career devoted to humor and making kids happy. Craig Yoe operates Yoe! Studio creations and Yoe! Books. He has authored nearly 100 books and is the winner of multiple Eisner Awards (the comics industry's Academy Awards equivalent), a Mobius award, an Inkwell award, and a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators.
Publisher Weekly says he's the “archivist of the ridiculous and the sublime” and calls his work "brilliant."
Library Journal “calls him a comics guru”. Jim Henson once said that “Craig brings with him his valuable creativity and enthusiasm.”
If you and your child liked humorous potty training and new experiences books such as Let’s Go to the Potty or the two books by Leslie Patricelli, Potty and Toot, you’ll love Craig Yoe’s Poop Happens.
Foreword
Yoe's freelance clients have included MTV, Microsoft, Mad Magazine, Cartoon Network, Zamboni, The United Nations, Mattel, Warner Bros., General Foods, Unilever, Hasbro, The Museum of Sex, DC Comics, Marvel Comics and many more.
Yoe has collaborated with Peter Max, John Updike, Britney Spears, Stan Lee, Maurice Sendak, Steven Spielberg, Yves St. Laurent, R. Crumb, Mahammud Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize winner), Todd Oldham, Milton Glaser, Michael Jackson, and many more.
Awards: Multiple Eisner winner, The Mobius Award, Gold Medal Winner from the Society of Illustrators, and many more.
