The Hole to China — Michael Rex

This Captain Underpants-style Stepping Stones series is half text, half illustration, and 100 percent humor.

The creator of "Goodnight Goon" and "The Runaway Mummy" pulls from his mad-scientist brain a kid so attracted to slime, muck, dirt, and yuck he could only be called Icky Ricky. And uh-oh! Icky Ricky is in a mess. Why? Well, you see...

He's digging a hole to China, in his backyard.
He found a free toilet in someone's garbage. (Score!)
He fell into a pigpen ... with a muddy mega-pig.
Icky Ricky is up to his eyeballs in trouble -- and ick!