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* Winner of the PETA Award for Children's Books


국내에는 "방귀대장 월터"라는 제목으로 번역서가 소개된 뉴욕타임즈 베스트셀러입니다.

사랑스런 개 월터는 언제 어디서나 방귀를 뿡뿡 뀌어대는 방귀대장입니다. 오늘은 베티와 빌리 가족들과 함께 알뜰시장에 집안의 잡동사니를 팔러 나왔습니다. 하지만 다른 이웃들은 물건들을 잘 파는데 반해, 월터네는 아무도 사러오지를 않았습니다. 날은 덥고, 손님은 없으니까 심심하던 베티와 빌리는 아이스크림을 사러 가고, 아빠와 월터만이 좌판을 지키고 있을 때, 한 남자가 다가와 월터를 사갑니다.

베티네랑은 한 가족이라고 생각했던 월터는 아빠의 행동에 몹시 서운했지만, 새 주인이 착한 사람일 거라는 믿음으로 그를 따라 나섰어요. 그런데 그 남자는 광대로 변장한 아주 나쁜 은행강도였어요. 월터의 방구가스를 모아서 풍선에 담은 후 은행에서 터트리면 사람들이 가스냄새를 참지 못하고 돈을 내줬지요.

자칫하면 월터 자신도 나쁜 일을 함께 하게 될 상황에서, 월터는 기지를 발휘하여 은행강도를 붙잡고 마을의 영웅이 됩니다...






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Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0142406260
ISBN-13: 978-0142406267
책 크기: 27.3 cm x 24.6 cm



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Book Description
Walter's family is holding a yard sale, but there are few customers. Walter, fartingcontentedly near Father, wonders why. When a man offers ten dollars for Walter, Father readily agrees. Walter wonders why. Walter is sad to leave his family behind, but relieved to discover that his new owner is a clown. Walter figures he will help the clown bring joy to children on their birthdays. But the clown has a dastardly plot: he will use Walter's gas to inflate balloons and then pop them to stun guards during bank robberies. Will Walter turn to the dark side? Of course not! He comes out a hero and is reunited with his family by doing what he does best.


School Library Journal
In this second far-fetched tale about Walter, neighbors have been avoiding the yard-sale table where Walter has been sitting all day. Unbelievably, Father wonders why! Yet he doesn't hesitate to sell the pup to the first man who stops by to inquire. The new owner, a clown, intends to use Walter for a bank heist by fastening him to a "fart-catcher" in order to inflate balloons with his obnoxious-smelling gas. As the clown pops the balloons in the bank, customers and bank tellers are overcome with the stench. When the perp arrives home with the sack of money, he lights a cigar and is launched across the room because of a gas leak. Walter runs out the door toward his former home, and the police follow the trail of $100 bills fluttering behind him. As they try to arrest Walter, he leads them back to the real culprit. Pages are busy with digital illustrations that give an olive green pallor to the human skin tone and a garish look to the clown. For those who appreciated the lowbrow, tasteless humor of the first book, this one provides much more of the same.


Booklist
Yes, Walter is back, as gassy as ever. This time, he is at a yard sale, but Father doesn't sell anything, because Walter drives away the customers. Then a man wants to know if Walter is for sale, and while the children, Betty and Billy, are away, Dad makes the deal. The new owner takes Walter home and hooks him up to a "fart catcher," blowing up balloons, which the man assures Walter will be used at a children's party, where he works as a clown. "'Well, at least it's for the children,' thought Walter, who farted." But it's not! The clown, who is really a robber, bursts the balloons in a bank, and the odor is so bad that the loot is readily given up. A few twists, turns, and farts later, things work out fine. This has the same gross humor as the previous book and even more inventive illustrations, a mix of collage and computer-generated art. In fact, there's so much to see in the pictures, children can look and laugh for hours. Don't muzzle Walter--at either end.