Yuck What's for Dinner? is The Very Hungry Caterpillar meets Ratatouille. Kids love the jokes, and moms love the message. Max the dung beetle hatches on a beautiful spring day. He can't wait to eat his dinner. . . until he finds out what dung is. No matter what his mother says or does, she can't entice him to try it. His mother is soon at her wits' end. Sweet little Max is heartbroken. Can Max and his mother find something that will make them both happy? And can Max be a good dung beetle. . . if he refuses to eat dung?