POO IN THE ZOO

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"There was tiger poo, lion poo, prickly porcupine poo,

Plummeting giraffe poop that landed with a splat.

Dollops of gnu poo, bouncy kangaroo poo,

A trail of drippy droppings from a fat wombat!"

Zoo Keeper Bob is exhausted. There's too much poo in the zoo - and he's the one who has to scoop it up. Then one day, a mysterious glowing poo appears! Could it be alien poop from outer space? And what on EARTH will Bob do with it?

Perfect for fans of The Dinosaur who Pooped Christmas, children will laugh out loud at this gloriously poopy, funny picture book! Packed with humour, the romping rhyme and deliciously cheeky wordplay is a joy to read aloud. From Steve Smallman (The Eyebrows of Doom, Bear's Big Bottom) and illustrator, Ada Grey (Hippobottymus). If you like this book, then you'll LOVE Cock-a-Doodle-Poo, also by Steve Smallman.

Also available: Poo in the Zoo: The Great Poo Mystery, Poo in the Zoo: The Island of Dinosaur Poo

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

Zookeeper Bob McGrew cares for lots of animals, which also means lots of poop-scooping, including gobs of gnu poo, bouncy kangaroo poo, / a dotted line of droppings from a fat wombat! But his routine is interrupted when an iguana escapes its habitat and goes on an eating binge, devouring cakes, pizza, and more (even fireflies, for something light). Then Bob notices the iguana's subsequent poo is, unbelievably, glowing and he decides it must be from outer space. Word of the luminous leavings spreads, and they become a major attraction, eventually drawing interest from an enthusiastic poo-collector who buys the dung for his poo museum, enabling Bob to purchase a much-appreciated robotic poop-scooper. Colorful, cartoonish illustrations depict the zoo setting and humorously expressive animals with playful details, while the narrative's rhythm and rhymes keep things peppy. The scatological scenarios are certainly copious, though blatantly hyperbolic, including the museum's seemingly endless array of apothecary jars with labeled specimens, featured on the endpapers. The title alone will be enough to get this chuckleworthy book in the right hands.--Rosenfeld, Shelle Copyright 2015 Booklist

Kirkus Book Review

Proving that there's always something new at the zoo, a pile of luminescent poop leaves even the designated poo-scooper flabbergasted. Unsurprisingly, scooping up a zoo's worth of doodoo every day"Flying bits of bat poo / Goodness, whose is that?' poo. / A smelly pile of panda poo / sitting on the sand. / And Monkey always threw it / just as fast as he could do it"makes young zookeeper Bob McGrew an expert on excreta. But who left the glowing glop? Aliens? Amid free-range arrays of dot-eyed, animated animals looking on with interest, Grey scatters sprays of brown spots, dots, smears, nuggets, and lumps of goocapped by an outsized yellow-green deposit (not, alas, printed with glow-in-the-dark ink) left by an escaped gourmand iguana in the wake of an unbridled cafe food-and-firefly swarm buffet. The arrival of Hector Glue, proprietor of Glue's Amazing Poo Museum, to buy the fecal firework provides Smallman with the opportunity for a second rollicking, rhymed catalog of caca: "I have a pile of yeti poo / and some that's like spaghetti poo, / a smoking pile of dragon poo," etc. Rows of carefully labeled museum exhibits continue on the endpapers.Certain to excite gushesof hysterical laughter, that isfrom lone readers and storytime audiences alike. (Poopture book. 4-10) Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.