With senior year finally behind them

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow

Suggested for Ages 7 to 10

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

build fantastical worlds

Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt? Barbara Kingsolver With senior year finally behindGreen Eggs and Ham meets Everyone Poops in this laugh out loud story that asksand answersthe burning question in every kid's life. Does a scarecrow have a butt? Yep, you stuff him with a straw one. And does a crayon have a butt? Nope, but it can surely draw one. This silly, funny, clever book will be the most quoted text in all of elementary school. Over the course of a long walk across a city, one curious kid needs to know: "Does it have a butt?"