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About Bud The Spud
Product description Bud was a kid, like any other kid. He liked pizza and ice cream. He liked to watch TV. But what happens when a kid (like any other kid) eats way too much junk food and watches way too much TV, and never, ever leaves the couch? You guessed it--he turns into a couch potato. Literally! You won't believe what happens to him next. . . . What happens when a kid eats too much junk food and watches too much TV, and never, ever leaves the couch? You guessed it: he turns into a couch potato--literally! In a unique feature, the book has three separate endings--three different outcomes for poor Bud--which range from the positive and uplifting to the decidedly macabre (which kids thoroughly love). Behind the humor is a serious message to help combat childhood obesity Review "As a pediatrician for forty years, I have seen my share of couch potatoes increase alarmingly. This funny book brings home a great message in a light-hearted way. Let's hope the point is received for homes with potatoes that they cannot make into salad." --Loraine Stern, MD, FAAP, co-editor of Nutrition: What Every Parent Needs to Know "Kids will love this book! With a very pointed message that Bud's story provides, conversations will ensue about the dangerous results of becoming a couch potato, be it from over consumption of television or computerized games." --Kathy Teitelman, National Board Certified Teacher and a third grade teacher for 25 years in Ohio "Java John creatively illustrates this fantastic story in a manner both colorful and creepy. The design of Bud as a Spud is interesting enough on its own to push the moral of this cautionary tale." --Len DiSalvo, illustrator for the award-winning Lima Bear Stories series, and art illustration and animation teacher in Tucson, Arizona "Speaking not just as a guitarist and former congressman, but as a professional ski instructor, avid tennis player, and sailor...Adam, John, and Bud encourage kids to get off the couch and move!" --The Hon. John Hall, two-term congressman for NY's 19th district; singer/songwriter for the band Orleans " Bud the Spud is a really beautiful book--I just love it. And my good buddy, Java John, is a very talented artist as well!" --Legendary pop artist Peter Max From the Author Many years ago, in the land of Gainesville, there lived two children. A sister and brother. And they liked to watch TV. Their favorite channel was created by an evil mouse, and they would watch it from when the got up to when they left for school and when they got home to when it was bed time and, on weekends, from waking up to going to sleep. One day they were watching a new show. It was a show about playgrounds around the country. They sat and watched kids playing while, outside, the sun was shining and the air was crisping on a spring day as lovely as any had ever been. Outside was a swing. But they watched kids on TV swing. Outside was a slide. But they watched kids on TV slide. And that was when their father and mother decided the TV channel must go away and the kids must go outside. Perhaps, at some point, the kids should have been let back in. Thus was Bud the Spud born, to tell your kids what will happen if they become couch potatoes. Why? So you won't have to. This story, this special story, this story you hold in your hands, is not just a work of art. No. it is a tool. A field-tested instrument honed to auditory and interactive perfection with participants ages four to sixty. At least I think sixty. She looked like sixty. It's sometimes so hard to tell. Anyway.... It was developed to be read aloud. And read aloud it was to kindergarten, first, second and third grade classes, middle school classes. High school classes, collective classes, mixed classes in pods. Each time a something fell flat, it was changed. If the rhythm failed to leave an obvious place to pause for a response or the response did not come, it was fixed. Tuned and retuned, again and again. I'm telling you--you can't mess this up. Really. Can it be read silently? I'm glad you asked. Yes. High school and middle school classes tried it and, sure enough, loved it. Then we read it aloud to them and they loved it again. Each experience a little different. So have no fear. This field-tested, well-honed, finely tuned instrument of joy and instruction will bring delight to you and your kids. No matter what age your kids are. Your grandkids too. And great-grandkids. And the kids across the street. Any kids. Any age. So take it home, bring it to school, give it as a present, read it at bedtime. If you do, your teeth will shine, your luck will improve and your kids will thank you. I promise at least one of those things will happen. I promise. From the Inside Flap Bud was a kid, like any other kid. He liked pizza and ice cream. He liked to watch TV. But what happens when a kid (like any other kid) eats way too much junk food and watches way too much TV, and never, ever leaves the couch? You guessed it--he turns into a couch potato. Literally! You won't believe what happens to him next. . . . About the Author Adam Byrn Tritt, MEd, CH, LMT, is a poet, an essayist, a screenwriter, a teacher, a shaman, a social activist, a humorist, and (according to friends) a mensch. Besides the book you are holding now, he is the author of The Phoenix and the Dragon: Poems of the Alchemical Transformation, a collection of his poetry, as well as several works of nonfiction. Adam won the 2006 EPPIE Award for Poetry in an Anthology and is listed in Who's Who in US Writers, Editors, and Poets. He has been a social worker and an educator, and holds degrees in Psychology, Education, and English. In 1995 he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work in religious tolerance and for the creation of TurningPoint, a nonprofit program providing alternative medicine to low-income individuals. He continues that passion today in the healthcare clinic he and his wife, Lee, dreamed of and created together--the Wellness Center. Today he is equally at home speaking in lecture halls, giving public readings in bookstores, and visiting elementary school classrooms, where he can be found surrounded by children begging him to read Bud the Spud just one more time (while their parents beg him to stop). Adam lives and writes--often simultaneously--in Palm Bay, Florida, with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter; his daughter, when she comes to visit; a dingo; and a ridiculously large alligator, all under a very big tree. His website is AdamTritt.com.
