A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.
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I can't not put humor in a book.
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read want to read a funny book.
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
Writers sometimes ruin a book by adding a lighthearted mood at the wrong moment.
Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.
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