The Big Book of Barf: A Spewnami of Sick Science, Hurled History, and Body Oddities by Vicky Lorencen
Published by Bright Matter Books on January 28, 2025
ISBN: 0593707915
Pages: 279
Format: Chapter Book Nonfiction
Source: MSL Book Review
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Just what every elementary school library and public library children’s room needs is an encyclopedic book about vomit. And Lorencen delivers. This 275-page reference book collects all of the different words and concepts related to vomit from A-to-Z. Using color and many text features, Lorencen offers facts, vocabulary, science concepts, and more (a recipe for “vomit”!) to cover with great thoroughness all of the ways we have found in the English language to discuss this gastric phenomena. This book is truly not for the faint-stomached and those who have a sensitive gag-reflex and true emetophobia will want to leave it on the shelf. But for those who delight in the gross, the gloppy, the barf-tastic, this book will be a fun read. There are a lot of puns and some word play that might hinder a newer reader.

Reviewed by Jill O’Connor, Falmouth Elementary School