Wonderful Book to Read Aloud with Kids

Today I am profiling a book has been around a while, but there is a reason it never goes out of style. Roddy Doyle has written an extremely funny story that will have you and your child giggling without restraint. Now how fabulous is that?

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Title: The Giggler Treatment

Author: Roddy Doyle

Target: Kindergarten - Grade 3

Series: No

What this book is about:
Gigglers are small creatures who exact revenge on adults who have been mean to children by putting dog poo in their path. When the Gigglers see Mr. Mack being unkind to his sons they set their revenge in motion. But it turns out that they left the scene too soon and that Mr. Mack actually doesn’t deserve it! Now the race is on to stop the unsuspecting Mr. Mack from stepping in a steaming pile of the stuff. Can he be saved?

Why I love this book:
This book had me laughing out loud in a restaurant the other day. It is absolutely that funny. When my son came home one day telling me that his librarian had been reading this one and that it was soooo hilarious, I knew I had to put it on my list. I just didn’t know it would take me years to get to it. What a shame for me!

Let’s face it, poo is funny. If you don’t think poo can be funny, you really shouldn’t have had children. But I will give you that it has to be done well, and Roddy Doyle is a poo master.

What Doyle does so well in this book is to draw out the anticipation of the impeding foot landing in the large mess inducing mountain of excrement. Chapters are interrupted with background information, the Gigglers cut in with their countdown to when his shoe will hit the stuff and of course the race to save him means a shortcut which is anything but. In fact, I think the whole story takes place over a ten second period of time, but boy is that a funny and exciting ten seconds!

Who this book is for:
Fabulous read aloud or great for kids who have moved up from early readers. But they have to enjoy laughing!

Final thoughts:
Please go out and read this one with your kids. You will be their hero.

I am a mom of three with a passion for literature! No matter what book series our kids devour, as they come to an end, we as parents ask the inevitable question - what is next? I am ever on the job, trying to answer that question. I try to do it with a variety of books. Some are silly, some true to life, some pure fantasy, but in the end I hope they make my children love words, explore new ideas, and laugh!