Laugh while you learn in an Auntie’s Zoom event Thursday

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When it comes to movies that are aimed at children, the one thing you can be sure of is that sooner or later one of the characters will make a joke about butts.

And, invariably, the theater will be filled with high-pitched laughter.

The same probably holds true for children’s books, many of them anyway, though I’m just guessing. It’s been so long since I read to a child that I really can’t say.

Maybe if you were to substitute the word “poop” for “butt.”

I have to think that children would find something to appreciate (read: find something to laugh at) in a book such as “Who Gives a Poop? Surprising Science From One End to the Other,” written by Heather L. Montgomery and illustrated by Iris Gottlieb.

If nothing else, they might enjoy that title. Beyond that, they might find something to giggle about while actually learning something. As a reviewer for Kirkus Review wrote, “Who Gives a Poop?” follows Montgomery’s 2018 book “Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill.”

And, the reviewer added, “Montgomery continues to convey her devotion to decomposition with breezy visits to labs and landfills, conversations with scat specialists, and thoroughly detailed up-close and personal notes on encounters with dead animals, guts, and writhing intestinal fauna.”

Montgomery will no doubt share aspects of that devotion when she participates in a Zoom conversation at 7 p.m. Thursday with Spokane author Kelly Milner Halls .

The event is sponsored by Auntie’s Bookstore. Click here to register .

And prepare to learn something. Maybe even learn something that’ll make your children laugh once or twice.