Wiley & Grampa #10: Jurassic Grampa (Wiley & Grampa's Creature Features)

by: Kirk Scroggs

Published by: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers

Reviewed by Jamie Driggers

Things go a little crazy in Gingham County when all the family pets revert to their prehistoric ancestor form. The streets are teeming with saber tooth tiger kitties, pterodactyls, megalodons, and T. Rexes. Could this be the work of Hans Lotion and his evil grandson Jurgen?

If potty humor is your thing (or your son’s thing, as if that is in question), this might just be the book for you to enjoy together. Chock full of references to “dooky” and “laxative” and all sorts of bodily functions as well as clever word play, there is a definite audience for this book–probably those with the mentality of an eight-year-old boy.

I’ll be the first to admit that this book did little more for me than producing the occasional smile at the word play. I am a thirty-three-year-old female and decidedly NOT the target audience. However, if you have a boy and aren’t horribly offended by extended discussions of prehistoric poop and who is eating it, you might find in this book a story your son finds worth reading.

I’d say, in general, there is less cross-over humor for adults reading this aloud to their kids than there is in the first of the Captain Underpants books, but it doesn’t do too badly.

Armchair Interviews says: Fun read.

Author’s Web site: http://www.WileyandGrandpa.com