It has the potential to be good. However, when a book has "gross" in the title, I expect a bit more "gross." I have a feeling kids will pick it up based on the title and cover, but get bored within 2-4 pages.

This is the kind of book I would have enjoyed as a child. All kinds of unusual animals facts that you probably wouldn’t get from a typical animal book - like eating poop, shooting vomit, spraying stinky smells etc. Nonetheless, it is intriguing and interesting to learn these facts, plus the artwork is great too.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me with an ARC.

Andy Seed's books are firm favourites in our house. They are funny, full of fascinating facts and interesting to look through.
This book is keeping with my expectations from Andy Seed.

I warn you, it is gross, funny, factual and will have your children engrossed from beginning to end.

The chapter headings give you an indication of what to expect; Ugly, Unfussy, Stinky, plus more!
I love animals and felt like I knew a lot about them but I learned something new on each page and it will appeal to my animal loving children as well. It reveals some funny and gross facts that make each of the animals unique and it made me appreciate nature all the more for its diversity.

Great illustrations of each animal and proof at just how much research Andy Seed would have done.

Brilliant book and perfect for school libraries!

A Giant Dose of Gross by author Andy Seed is a hugely loved book in our house! Our daughters absolutely loved it and it’s cool (but gross) facts about animals!

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Definitely recommend to children!

Hmm… I don't mind the idea of a book that deliberately shows us the more visually (or olfactorily) peculiar nature of our planet, but I do think it might have been better than this. For one I would have preferred photos, however realistic and lifelike the artwork here actually is. For another I would certainly have ditched the blatantly unfunny "dialogue" the animals get given. And the opening salvo of ''ugly'' critters is a bit off, picking some perfectly reasonable beasties. Before the end however we do find enough trivia to mean the book is a bit of a success, from animals deliberately smelling as if they're dead and unsavoury to eat, to vomiting up food, cannibalism and defensive farts. But finally this is yet another book that misses the obviously essential bit of information – how and why such things developed. All it takes is a paragraph to introduce evolution, or is that still a no-no in too much of the American market? I enjoyed what I could, but this could have done with being more old-fashioned, letting the animals themselves make it a success.

Animali brutti, animali che mangiano cadaveri, animali che vivono nello sporco, Animali dalle abitudini strane...

Animali per tutti i gusti, che questo brillante volumetto permette di scoprire: non come abomini, ma spiegando il perché, per loro, l'aspetto per noi inquietante o le abitudini di vita rivoltanti siano una brillante soluzione alle necessità di sopravvivenza.

Ironico, intelligente e ricco di curiosità: un altro dei volumi che sto mettendo da parte (e traducendo nei ritagli di tempo) per quando l'Infanta, già molto animalomane, saprà leggere. ^^