Walter the Farting Dog

Customer Reviews

• Putting things in perspective  Sep 21, 2004 (78 of 86 found this helpful)

  Is this the greatest kids' book ever? I certainly wouldn't try to make a case for that. Does it deserve the venom that some of the reviewers have directed at it? Hardly, but some people are coming as close as they can to alleging plagarism on the part of the author. Fart plagarism --- I never thought I would live to see the day.
  
  Honestly, if anything written from this point forward involving dogs and flatulence is immediately going to be subjected to allegations of plagarism, then we might as well take the allegations to their logical extremes. I would note that John Irving featured a farting dog in the 1981 novel "Hotel New Hampshire," which I guess means all farting dog books since then are simply John Irving ripoffs.
  
  For those reviewers who were shocked, shocked I tell you, that the book's content was, dare I say it, a little crude --- I would simply suggest that you read the book's title a little more diligently. There is no hidden agenda here --- what you see is what you get, and really, it is not nearly as vulgar as it could be. Good grief.
  
  As to the book itself --- it is a fairly entertaining book with amusingly bizarre artwork and some pretty amusing dialogue. An adult with some talent with sound effects could have a great deal of fun entertaining the youngsters, as I did. Books that are as much fun for the adult reader as the youthful listener don't come down the pike every day.

• Kids and adults both love this one!  May 9, 2005 (35 of 38 found this helpful)

  Let's face it, even if adults put on a disapproving face when their kids start talking about farts, deep down they know (as do their kids) that farts are just plain...funny...and something that toes the line between disgusting and hilarious.
  So Walter is the perfect character, a dog who has a gas problem.....and quite a problem it is. Just reading this book makes most adults and kids break into giggles and it is just plain fun to read - again and again.

• Funny book for young kids  Aug 16, 2002 (19 of 21 found this helpful)

  Yes, it's a little crude, but it also deals with something that we all have and makes it funny. The tales of Walter and his gas had me laughing so hard I was crying. Young kids will get a kick out of this.
  If you do story reading to yound children at schools, this would be a fun book.

• The Best Book I Bought for my Brother  Dec 5, 2004 (13 of 14 found this helpful)

  Last Christmas, I went to find my little brother a present. He is five yrs old and loves books. I am away at college and wanted to get him something that we could read and have fun with together. After searching for a while, I came across Walter the Farting Dog. I remember when I was a kid and how funny farting was- I knew my brother would love it. When he opened it and I read it to him, he couldn't stop laughing and made me read it over and over again. Still, to this day, he asks me to read it to him when I come home and he even brings it when he comes to visit me at school! Every page even has a spider hidden in the picture- which was fun to find. This book will make any kid laugh, and it will bring any parent, or big sister, back to their childhood!

• This one's a real gas  Oct 15, 2007 (8 of 8 found this helpful)

  Face it, people. The act of farting, even the name itself, makes kids giggle. So why not celebrate that with a literary treat? Walter is a dog with a problem that many young men face today: he can't stop farting. It's so stinkin' bad that his new owners are threatening to send him back to the pound. Luckily some burglars try to break in that very night and I'm sure you can figure out what Walter does to save himself and his family. You guessed it - gasses 'em. The illustrations are wonderfully wacky - just like the book. Can't wait to sniff out the next treasure in this series.