Saturday 26 July

Back Away From the Stinging Nettles, Young Person

Having grown up in Iowa on a farm, I'm probably at a slight advantage for identifying poisonous plants and snakes. But for the rest of us, or just kids who love all things creepy and crawly and generally nasty, there's Don't Touch That! by Jeff Day, who is coincidentally both a pediatrician and an artist.
 
The colorful cartoon illustrations have my four-year-old daughter pretending to consult this book every time she goes outside. I skimmed the book cover-to-cover in about an hour while waiting for the turkey burgers to grill, noting the sections on snakes and spiders (gah) and the index, to which I'll be referring the next time someone in my house starts with the unexplained itching.
 
Ick. -Rita

 

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