Tuesday Treasure
Poo or poop is popular topic with our younger readers. Squiggle, Diddle, Plop is perfect in so many ways. It is funny. It will spark curiosity (do wombats really have cube shaped poo?), the illustrations are a delight and one more thing - this book celebrates dung beetles.
Echidna produces a small brown poo. He shows platypus.
"Oh!' laughed Platypus.
'You've done a SQUIGGLE.
I'll do one, too!"
And so the pattern is established. We meet Tiger Snake, Flying Fox, Frilled Lizard, Kookburra and Wombat. Their deposits are described as a quibble, a diddle, a plop, a swish, a twirly and a fuddy-duddy. The best page, though, is right near the end. Everyone has produced a poo but now what will they do? Echidna suggests they make a cake. Now the dung beetles can move in and do what they do best.
There are sure to be some other books illustrated by Guundie Kuchling in Australian school libraries. Guundie was born in Austria but now lives in Western Australia.
I have another post about poo. Here is a site that shows photos of different animal scats if you need to do some background reading. You might also like to read some non fiction books on this topic. The two by Jill Bruce are perfect to read alongside Squiggle, Diddle, Plop!
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