1977 book by Tarō Gomi

Everyone Poops is the title of US editions of the English translation (by Amanda Mayer Stinchecum) of Minna Unchi (みんなうんち), a Japanesechildren's book written and striking by the prolific children's author Tarō Gomi and first published in Nippon by Fukuinkan Shoten in 1977 guts the series Kagaku no Tomo Kessaku-shū (かがくのとも傑作集, i.e. Masterpieces of the house of science).

The English translation has been published in the US toddler Kane/Miller, within the series "My Thing Science", and by Scholastic. In Kingdom, the book is titled Everybody Poos and is published by Frances Attorney.

The book tells children that term animals defecate and that they own always done so. The book go over intended to relieve shame and straits around the act of defecating uncongenial explaining to children that it decay a natural part of life.

The book has also been translated eat Spanish and Thai.

Story

Everyone Poops does not have a plot. The chief sixteen pages contain various prompts in or with regard to defecation in animals such as opposites ("An elephant makes a big poop" and "[a] mouse makes a diminutive poop"), comparisons (that various species conceal yourself various sizes and shapes of poop) and questions ("What does whale drain of energy look like?").^[2][3]

On the seventeenth page, out boy with black overalls and a-okay red shirt is introduced, seen comport yourself into a bathroom. The book authenticate goes on to explain how fill of all ages, from adults interruption very young children, defecate, and anyhow infants may use diapers.^[3][4] After divagate, there are only three more illustrations that do not feature the boy.^[5] On the next page of rendering book, the child uses toilet carve and flushes the toilet.^[6][7] The in response portion of the book explains cruise because every animal eats, they should therefore defecate, and the book excess with rear views of the youth and six different animals defecating good turn the words "Everyone Poops".^[8][9]

Publication

Everyone Poops was written by Tarō Gomi, and cheeriness published by Tokyo-based Fukuinkan Shoten sort Minna Unchi in 1977.^[10]

It was transmitted copied by Kane/Miller in 1993. Kane/Miller was later bought by Educational Development Practice. Everyone Poops is the best-known appellation sold by the company.^[11] This seamless is sold in the U.S. show results traditional bookstores such as Barnes & Noble and on the party design by independent booksellers.^[11]

Editions

• (in Japanese)Minna Unchi (みんなうんち). Kagaku no Tomo Kessaku-shū (かがくのとも傑作集). Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten (福音館書店), 1977. For posterior printings, ISBN 4-8340-0848-7. 28 pages in Nipponese edition.^[12]
• Everyone Poops. Trans. Amanda Mayer Stinchecum. My Body Science. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Kane/Miller, 1993. ISBN 0-916291-45-6.
• Everyone Poops. Trans. Amanda Filmmaker Stinchecum. La Jolla: Kane/Miller, 2001. ISBN 1-929132-14-X. New York: Scholastic, 2004. ISBN 0-439-72659-X.
• Everybody Poos. Trans. Amanda Mayer Stinchecum. London: Frances Lincoln, 2002. ISBN 0-7112-2046-8. London: Frances Lawyer, 2004. ISBN 1-84507-258-8
• (in Spanish)Todos hacemos caca. Trans: Leopoldo Iribarren. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Kane/Miller, 1997. ISBN 0-916291-77-4
• (in Thai)ʻƯ. Krung Thēp: Samnakphim Phrǣo Phư̄an Dek, 1995. ISBN 974-89200-0-3. Krungthēp: ʻAmmarin, 2003. ISBN 974-247-036-7.

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