Moose With Loose Poops: Most Disgusting Book Title Ever?

Sometimes a little bathroom humour goes a long way. But the title of a children's book meant to help get them through the " “misery of tummy aches, caused first by vomiting and then by diarrhea," is just plain disgusting. 

The Moose With Loose Poops will hit shelves in January, the fifth in the Dr. Hippo series from Charlotte Cowan, M.D., a practicing paediatrician at Boston's Mass General Hospital for Children. The actual story about Papa Moose's bout with gastroenteritis sounds innocuous at worst. At best, it could be just what the doctor ordered for helping little ones through their fears about an upset tummy. I suppose this is the one to read AFTER Everyone Poops doesn't work and you have to dose them with Nu-Lax for holding it in.

But that title? Where do we begin? It's "dung" got us in a tizzy here on the 'Derby. The rest of the Dr. Hippo books have run-of-the-mill monikers like Peeper has a Fever and Katie Caught a Cold. Yawn-a-palooza? Perhaps, but I could read them to my daughter without losing my lunch.Then again, the family that hangs out on the toilet together, stays together, right?

We figured we'd lend Dr. Cowan's publishers a hand and spice up her titles a bit. Here's what we came up with:

1. Zilly the Zebra Has Got the Diarrhea (cha, cha, cha)
2. Prudence the Porcupine With Projectile Vomiting
3. Danny the Dinosaur with Diarrhea
4. Henry the Hippo with Hershey Squirts
5. Randy the Racoon with the Runs
6. Fanny the Frog and the Trouble With Flatulence
7. Pat the Cat Is Making Scat
8. Fred the Fox is Fecally Challenged
9. Carl the Crocodile is Constipated
10. Tery the Turtle and the Terrible Turds

Anyone else want to weigh in?

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