• Age: 3 to 7
• Grade: p to 3

As Seen In People Magazine 

A timely and funny story about … ANIMALS WHO LOVE THEIR BUTTS! 

Perfect for readers of Everyone Poops and Tails

A bunny loves her cute bottom. A tiger and a zebra love their striped bottoms.

A giraffe admires her patterned bottom. A panda adores his black-and-white bottom. 

A hippo is proud of his round and so-o-o big bottom. And an elephant’s bottom is even bigger!

All bottoms are wonderful! Don’t you agree?

Boost your mood and laugh-out-loud while reading this whimsical picture book, which teaches kids and adults alike a valuable lesson: all butts are beautiful! Don’t you agree?

Praise for Animals Brag About Their Bottoms

“Amazingly stylish … with humorous charm and elegant illustrations.”—The Toronto Star

“Celebrates animal behinds in all their forms...there’s not a trace of self-consciousness in this jaunty, no-nonsense exhibition of animal posteriors.”—Publishers Weekly

“Light, conversational, and funny; and the painterly patoots are lovely in their texture and shading…. By the end (ha!) we’ve learned a little about these remarkable creatures.”—The Horn Book

“In Saito’s delicate renderings, each bottom is distinct and, yes, beautiful.”—Kirkus Reviews

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MAKI SAITO is an artist and author known for her unique artistic methods using paper collage, stenciled paintings, and bin-gata, a traditional Japanese dyeing technique developed in Okinawa. She has written and illustrated several books in Japanese, inspired by her love for all living creatures in nature. Animals Brag About Their Bottoms is her first book translated into English.

“The text is light, conversational, and funny; and the painterly patoots are lovely in their texture and shading…. By the end (ha!) we’ve learned a little about these remarkable creatures.”
—The Horn Book

“This humorous title delivers just what it promises: fauna fawning over their own rumps. ...In Saito’s delicate renderings, each bottom is distinct and, yes, beautiful.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“From a cuddly round bunny bottom to a hippo’s “so-o-o big” bum, Saito celebrates animal behinds in all their forms...there’s not a trace of self-consciousness in this jaunty, no-nonsense exhibition of animal posteriors.”
—Publishers Weekly

“With the frissonof the forbidden, it focuses on animals’ amazingly stylish rear-ends — from fluffy to striped to spiky, with humorous charm and elegant illustrations.”
—Toronto Star

“This off-beat book will appeal most to science-minded young ones, who will be fascinated by an angle of their animal friends they rarely get to see. Where else but a children's picture book could an okapi, alpaca, armadillo, Malayan tapir, and Japanese macaque line up to boastfully present their posteriors?”
—Booklist

“Bottom books are ever popular but few are executed in such style as this irresistible read. An adorable line up shows off their rears in pride in a nod to body positivity.”
—The Bookseller