Fartiste: An explosively funny, mostly true story

from Fartiste by Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer, illustrated by Boris Kulikov. Jacket illustration copyright © 2008 by Boris Kulikov. Used by permission of Simon & Schuster.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around,
and don't let anybody tell you different. 
                             ---Kurt Vonnegut

One day a baker with butter and yeast,
And the next—voila! –he was JOE, the Fartiste.

The Fartiste doesn’t sing, he doesn’t dance, and he doesn’t act. But that doesn’t stop him from taking the stage at Paris’s famed Moulin Rouge, where he performs his much-loved act for celebrities and royalty with the funniest talent of all – Joe is the man who has perfected the art of the fart.

Kathleen Krull and Paul Brewer bring new wind to their mostly true story about “the man who made his pants dance,” which is perfectly matched with Boris Kulikov’s explosive art.

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Starred reviews from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly

“Title Most Likely to Make Middle-Grade Boys Guffaw and Parents Groan”
                        --Publishers Weekly (tie)

"Krull and husband Brewer must have known they'd struck picture-book-biography gold when they discovered Joseph Pujol."
                             --Horn Book

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