Funny man Bart King is at it again with his own gigantic book of fun! Jam-packed with awesome jokes, silly trivia, cool activities, mysterious puzzles, and much more, this book is the perfect companion for kids everywhere. They won't leave home (or school) without it!

There's this boy. Let's say he's somewhere between nine and thirteen years old or so. You'd like to see this kid get creative. You'd like to see him get some exercise. You'd like to see him get out from in front of the television. And you'd love for him to be motivated enough to find some stuff to do on his own. This boy NEEDS The Big Book of Boy Stuff!

The Big Book of Boy Stuff has all the important information that boys just have to know. Collected here for the first time in one place, it holds the answers to these timeless questions:

• What do I do if I get a bean stuck up my nose?
  
  
• How can I make lightning without killing myself?
  
  
• Where can I find new practical jokes to play on my friends and family?
  
  
• How can I make a rocket?
  
  
• What is the best way to poop outside?
  
  
• How do I tell a girl I like her?
  
  
• Why would I tell a girl I like her?
  
  
• How many mosquitoes does it take to suck all the blood out of a person?
  
  
• What's that smell?

. . . and many, many more!

This big, thick, durable book includes fascinating chapters on gross stuff, magic, emergencies, fireworks, games, experiments, jokes, activities, insults, pets, flying things, and, of course, duct tape. No boyhood is complete without a copy!

• Why are horses so cool?
  
  
• How do I stop a baby from crying?
  
  
• How do I stop a boy from crying?
  
  
• Which sends more people to hospital emergency rooms—shoes or pillows?
  
  
• How do I fake a cell phone conversation?
  
  
• Why are my lips a different color from the rest of me?
  
  
• Which country considers pierced ears bad luck?
  
  
• What's the date of International Sea Monkey Day?

From boogers, B.O., and belches to sneezes, diseases, and demon cheeses, The Big Book of Gross Stuff is chock-full of practical knowledge including a Gross Quiz (kids can see how they stack up against the rest of society) and the World's Most Disgusting Jobs (whale-feces research, anyone?).

With the turn of every page, The Big Book of Gross Stuff will challenge your gag reflexes as it introduces topics, terminology and trivia about toilets, scabies, decaying bodies, and much more. The pages overflow with humor and an array of cool phrases that will have readers bending and sending, blowing soup, and gargling gravy all the way to the bathroom!

For instance, did you know:

* In 1971, a band named Hot Poop released a record titled Does Their Own Stuff! They were never heard from again.

* When using fake vomit, the key to faking people out is to sprinkle water on the stuff to make it look more realistic.

* Belly button lint is composed of dust, dried sweat, fat, dead skin, and bits of cotton. A man named Graham Barker has collected his belly button lint in jars since 1984.

Check out the Book Trailer on YouTube: The Big Book of Gross Stuff: Making Distinctions!

Bart King, a self-proclaimed "dabbler," is interested in games, magic, current events, music, chess, history, literature, geography, travel, crime, science fiction, art, and almost everything else! The veteran of many water-balloon wars, he's twice won the prized "Arrested Development" award from the New York Society of Amateur Psychologists. He earned a master's degree in history from Sonoma State University and has taught middle school for the past fifteen years.

• The first female journalist, Anne Royall, who forced an interview with John Quincy Adams by stealing his clothes while he was skinny dipping!
  
  
• Candidate John Lindsay, who released chickens at a speech by his opponent, George Wallace, in order to shame Wallace into a debate.
  
  
• Benjamin Franklin, the originator of phrases like "A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one," and "A man who lives on hope, dies farting."

Abracadabra ! Hocus-pocus! Allakazam! Happis crappis! Say it together now—magic! Take a peek inside the magician’s secret wardrobe to discover the tricks of the trade, the tales of derring-do, and the people who made the magic happen.

Demystifying the mystical is the popular, raucous, ready-to-trick-his-own-mother Bart King! But what, you may ask, can Bart do? He can show the ways of the most secretive magicians in the world.