Poo is endlessly fascinating and funny to young children and the protagonists in this picture book – two little white mice – are obsessed with the stuff!
They’re heading on a trip to the zoo with their dad and even though he keeps telling them ‘no talking about poo!’, they just can’t help wondering what kind of poo the people they pass on the way would produce. Their debates and conclusions are very funny, and all in jolly rhyming text too, ‘Do you think the balloon seller does bendy poo? He does poo you can twist into something new!’. Despite the subject matter, this is very pretty to look at, Marianna Coppo’s illustrations in sweet shop colours, and it will delight its target readership.
The baby mice love to imagine all the different kinds of poo! Would a penguin do a sparkly, frosty, South Pole poo? Would an astronaut do a rocket-powered, weightless poo? But there's just one rule for the baby mice on their day out today: NO TALKING ABOUT POO! Dad has forbidden it. But with all the hilarious possibilities, how will they stop?!
From New York Times bestselling author Daisy Bird and Kate Greenaway Medal shortlisted illustrator Marianna Coppo, this laugh-out-loud ode to poop is perfect for fans of 101 Bums and Poo in the Zoo.
Daisy Bird is a pen name for Jacky Colliss Harvey, the New York Times bestselling author of Red: A History of the Redhead; My Life is a Redhead: A Journal, and The Animals Companion.
She studied English at Cambridge and splits her time between London and the US. She decided to write for children as Daisy Bird because her real name is such a mouthful for little ones!
