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The artwork has a fuzzy, almost finger painted feel to it, which makes the sculptures appear a little less realistic, which might be a good thing for squeamish readers. While my own dog does not seem to have the... talent that Henry has at making his sculpture stand upright, I guess that goes to show how much of an artist Henry really is!

Poop is certainly funny to a certain audience, and I can see this being the absolute favorite of a three year old. The text is very short, with just a sentence or two on each page, making this a short read, just in case you have to read it aloud four or five times in a row. I liked the ground level perspective; most pages show just the humans legs, since we are seeing the world from Henry's viewpoint.

This will appeal to fans of the many recent books about dogs that have been published, like Cáceres' Hello, Tobi, Sharff's Joan in the Cone, or Otis' Hazel is All That. It also joins the pantheon of books about excrement that range from Gomi's classic 1981 Everyone Poops to McLean's Does This Poo Belong to You? Finally, this is a perfect gift for the legions of young Henrys that are coming up in the world; it seems to be the new hot name. There are human Henrys represented in Simon's Horrid Henry and Bailey and Song's A Friend for Henry Series, as well as Henry Quackenbush's Henry the Duck and a disproportionate number of books about hippos named Henry!