Ick Yuck Eew Our Gross American History

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Category
Non-Fiction
Publisher
Millbrook Press January 2014
Curriculum
Social Studies Curriculum

"Have you ever wanted to take a trip in a time machine?  You'd set it for, say, 1770.  You'd visit an early American city, ride a horse along cobblestone streets, go to a fancy ball, and grab a bite to eat."

Well, maybe it wouldn't quite be like that.  Actually it depends on how much you like poop... of all kinds.  You know the really, really bad smell by the dumpster sometimes?  That's exactly how America smelled in the 1600s, the 1700s, and the early 1800s.

Horses clomping down the city streets pooped.  Cows roaming the streets poop too.  Pigs are running wild in the streets and guess what? They are pooping in the streets too.  It's pretty much an All-Play.  Everyone poops.

Since people don't have indoor toilets, they toss the old chamber pot out the window in the morning and add to the joy.  You can't help but step in all of it so you end up tracking the poop into wherever you go.  If you happen to have an outhouse you better have a cloth to put over your nose as you open the door.  We're talking nasty.  No place to wash your hands afterward either.  You might even notice your neighbor peeing in the alleyway.

This is a gruesome and gritty walk through the smells and scratching of our American history.  Breath that can knock you down, no one bathes but the Native Americans and when you blow your nose you carefully tuck it into your hankie and save it in your pocket. 

Bedbugs, lice and George Washington's teeth line up to be counted along with smallpox thousands of flies.

Ages   8-12   47 pages   978-0761390916

Slightly recommended :)  by Barb

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