A Museum of Poo

 

 

Miss Felicity Beadle’s The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett

Fans of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series will enjoy this children’s book, as will children who have never heard of Pratchett. In the book “Snuff” Sam Vimes, Commander of the Watch, gave this book to his young son, knowing that he would laugh himself sick.

This is the tale of young Geoffrey, who visits his grandmama’s house in Ankh-Morpork while his mother is having a baby. While he was in the yard, a bird poos on his head, and he decides to make a museum of poo in one of the gardening sheds. Geoffrey and his grandmama visit Sir Henry King, who collects all the poo in the city. He also visits the Guild of Plumbers, and along the way collects the poo of hippos, wyverns, dragons and gargoyles.