This New York Times Kids section cover, and infographic spread employ overtly foul but amusing depictions of sickness to represent and educate about germs, the early educational childhood obsession whose microscopic, alien looks make them fun villains for kids to shoo away with the clean and healthy practices lessons on germs establish. Vile but potent colors, hand-done snot typography, and the portrait of an evidently sick character represent the NYT Kids world in a gross, mystifying fashion, with information that helps kids learn about the many kinds of germs, their effects, where they come from, and how to protect from them.