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JANE YOLEN and HEIDI E.Y. STEMPLE YUCK, YOU SUCK.

are a mother and daughter writing team. IT’S NOT AN
On their farm in Massachusetts, they have YOLEN / STEMPLE / NOBATI
resident butterflies whom they adore and INSULT.
mosquitoes whom they do not. Thankfully,
they have never spotted a shark or vampire IT’S A SUCKER’S
bat on the property. They can often be heard INTENDED
arguing about pigeons, which Heidi loves and
Jane thinks are flying rats. They’re brilliant! RESULT.
Are not! Are too!

Jane is the author of more than 400 books WARNING:
including Caldecott winner Owl Moon and THIS BOOK SUCKS! IT BITES,
the New York Times best-selling How Do YOU SIP, YOU STICK, SLURPS, AND STICKS TOO.
Dinosaurs series. YUCK, YOU SUCK!

Heidi is the author of a slightly smaller number YOU EAT, Dare to open these pages and you’ll find
of books (39), including Counting Birds, People YOU SLURP ticks, mosquitos, stingrays, elephants,
Shapes, and Adrift. jellyfish, and the particularly sucky
You may still be able to smell their stinky WITHOUT A HICCUP, BELCH, lamprey. Sixteen succulent poems from
poems from Eek, You Reek! which led, OR Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple
naturally, to Yuck, You Suck! This is their BURP. introduce a suction-filled selection
25th book together. And THAT doesn’t suck! of animals, and spectacularly sticky

EUGENIA NOBATI has drawn for as long illustrations from Eugenia Nobati
as she can remember. She loves to give shape spotlight these stupendous suckers.
to funny characters—particularly animals that
sip, slurp, suck! Eugenia lives in Buenos Aires, Poems about Animals That SIP, SLURP, SUCK
Argentina, with her family.

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