Recently a friend of mine was telling me about potty-training her daughter, and some of the surprisingly emotional struggles her little girl had with it, and how they employed help from the well-known Japanese book Everyone Poops. I wondered whether there were many books about poop. There are! Many exist for educational purposes - the history of people pooping, fossilized poop as a way to know more about history, how to identify various animals’ poop in the woods, and more. There are also some children’s humour books about the subject, books about parenting and potty-training, and a few just plain weird or rude. Here are some of the most poopular - I mean popular.
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- Dino Poop and Other Remarkable Remains of the Past (ed: Jane Hammerslough)
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- Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi
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- Flush: The Scoop on Poop Throughout the Ages by Charise Mericle Harper
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- Jurassic Poop: What Dinosaurs (and Others) Left Behind by Jacon Berkowitz
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- Poop Culture: How America is Shaped by Its Grossest National Product by Dave Praeger
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- The Scoop on Poop: Fascinating Science from the Animal World by Wayne Lynch
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- The Truth About Poop by Susan E. Goodman
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- What Shat that? A Pocket Guide to Poop Identity by Matt Pagett
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- The Tao of Poop by Vivian Elisabeth Glyck
Also, here’s a fun game for kids called Who Pooped? by the Minnesota Zoo.
