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For fans of Jon Klassen and Peter Brown comes MORE DUNG!, a slyly funny and stunningly illustrated picture book about a greedy dung beetle by debut author-illustrator Frank Weber.

The dung beetle thinks he has everything he needs: the warmth of the sun, a gurgling river, and as much dung as he could ever want. But when a leopard tells him of a farm with even MORE dung, the beetle’s world suddenly looks small. And so he sets off to the farm, accruing more and more dung, building a veritable DUNG EMPIRE! But a tower of dung comes with a tower of risk, and soon our insect hero finds himself buried in his greed. (Yes, he’s buried in poop.)

Frank Weber seamlessly blends philosophical questions about greed with scatological humor and truly gorgeous artwork to create this special debut.

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ISBN-13:	9781368100083
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/14/2024
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	234,628
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.42(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Frank Weber is an animator and director who specializes in design and animation. He's based in London but originally hails from South Africa, which inspires his work. More examples of his art can be found on newmonday.tv.

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02/19/2024
South Africa–born animator and director Weber makes a visually comic picture book debut with this fable about the power of appreciation—and poo. A grinning, bright-eyed chap, the title’s dung beetle protagonist seems the very definition of gratitude-practicing. Thanking the sun for its warm rays and stretching out four arms, he awaits “whatever he might receive” near the river, and gets a generous “SPLAT!” of elephant dung. He packs some into a ball to push home (and snack on), orients himself by the sun and the night sky, and protects the small orb from challengers. But when an enigmatic leopard tells the contented beetle of the heaps of dung to be had at a nearby cattle farm, the beetle can’t resist. Pencil and digital spreads, heretofore depicting a verdant, sunlit landscape, now turn monochromatic and dreary as the insect voraciously builds a dung empire inside the harshly lit cattle barn. It takes getting buried in an avalanche of the stuff to bring him to his senses and send him back home. The moral—knowing when enough truly is enough—underscores the folly of greed while playfully reassuring that one mistake doesn’t have to last a lifetime. Ages 3–5. Agent: Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, Folio Literary. (May)

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★ "A sure storytime hit." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A visually comic picture book debut . . . about the power of appreciation—and poo." —Publishers Weekly

"The combination of absurd humor and clever social commentary gives the book broad appeal, making it an easy choice for a giggly storytime or a discussion on what and how we decide to commodify things." —Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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★ 2024-02-17
A sly morality tale featuring a dung beetle and a lot of his favorite stuff.
Usually the beetle is grateful for the sun, the sky, and whatever he receives from the elephants towering high overhead—“SPLAT!” But then a leopard’s remark about a distant farm “with more dung than any beetle could dream of” leads him to a cow barn where the fragrant deposits are so thrillingly massive that he must hire other beetles to help. They gather the dung into a tall, teetering, jealously guarded mountain that’s far too large to roll anywhere. Alas, such untrammeled greed can have but one catastrophic result, but rather than becoming a fecal fatality, the beetle emerges from the climactic monumental dungslide a chastened insect. With a renewed appreciation for what he had, he returns to the river bank to take joy in the warm sun, the boundless forest, and, of course, his fair and sufficient share of SPLAT. Kitted out with wide eyes and, when he’s swimming in the fresh gloop, a winningly goofy grin, the six-legged scarab, roughly the size of the toenails on the enormous elephantine feet behind him, stands in the ground-level scenes with limbs raised joyously to the sky in supplication. Weber brushes atmospheric views of moonlit grasses and cranes flying across a red sun into art that, along with the tale’s terse, formal language, lends a properly folkloric tone to the drollery.
Drops dollops of wisdom into a sure storytime hit. (Picture book. 4-8)

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