Dookie is a poop munching bug in need of cash. Pierre is a praying mantis with a mind for business but a name on his head. Literally. Can these insects help one another before it's too late? Dookie is far from a typical poop-rolling dung beetle. Disappointed he didn't get an iPoo for Christmas, Dookie needs to find a way to earn some dung dollars. After a failed business venture, Dookie's luck changes when a praying mantis moves in next door. The entrepreneurial mantis turns a local diarrhea outbreak into a poop theme park wonderland the dung beetle community can enjoy. So finally for Dookie, the cash is rolling in. Pierre is a praying mantis running from an arranged marriage. He hides among the dung beetles to save his head, but his problems worsen when he and Dookie are captured and thrown into a bug circus where the main event is a live praying mantis beheading, and Pierre's head is the star of the show! Can Dookie find a way to break out of the bug circus and save his friend's head? Will Dookie ever play Angry Turds on his own iPoo? Poop Fair is the fourth book in a series of comedic children's picture books. If you like clever wordplay, gross-out humor, awesome illustrations and hidden jokes for Mom and Dad, then you'll love the latest book in Damiano Bernardo's Dookie the Dung Beetle's Stinky Adventure series. Buy Poop Fair and laugh your way through story time today!

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art, and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples considered throughout the book focus on disgust, grandiosity, sex, violence, horror, disfigurement, endurance, shock, abundance, and emptiness, and frames them all within an educational context. Together they provide theories and classificatory systems, historical and political interpretations of art and excess, examples of popular culture, and suggestions for the future of educational practice.

Twelve-year-old Sam dreams of owning a purebred puppy, convinced they are superior to a mongrel like Max, the family's ancient pet. Smelly, disheveled, and affectionate, Max is a walking miracle. Near death's door when Sam's sister rescued him, Max survived and seems immortal. That's too bad, for Sam's mother says no new dog if it's going to bother Max. Undaunted, Sam decides to save enough money to buy a puppy anyway and takes a job walking dogs in CountryWood, the fancy gated community in his rural town. There he clashes with Justin, a rich, pampered "burbie" who owns just the kind of dog Sam wants: a sable German shepherd. Justin is determined to get Sam fired and destroy his dream. Their feud, echoing the conflict between rich city transplants and the townies, escalates into violence. This heartwarming story of a boy and his dogs is filled with memorable characters--both human and canine.

The New York Times–bestselling memoir of a biologist’s life with an unforgettable owl “will captivate animal lovers” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). On Valentine’s Day 1985, biologist Stacey O’Brien first met a four-day-old barn owl—a fateful encounter that would turn into an astonishing 19-year saga. With nerve damage in one wing, the owlet had no hope of surviving in the wild. O’Brien, a young assistant in the owl laboratory at Caltech, was immediately smitten, promising to give him a permanent home. Wesley the Owl is the funny, poignant story of their dramatic two decades together. With a tender heart and a scientist’s eye, O’Brien describes how Wesley grew from a helpless ball of fuzz to a gorgeous adult owl with an outsized personality. She also brings us inside her research community, a kind of scientific Hogwarts where resident owls flew freely from office to office and eccentric, brilliant scientists were extraordinarily committed to studying and helping animals. As O’Brien gets close to Wesley, she makes important discoveries about owl behavior, intelligence, and communication: he did not tolerate lies, held her to her promises, and provided unconditional love, though he was not beyond an occasional sulk. When O’Brien develops her own life-threatening illness, the biologist who saved the life of a helpless baby bird is herself rescued from death by the insistent love and courage of this wild animal.