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What Do You Do with Your Poo?
What is "What Do You Do with Your Poo?"
Imagine if a feisty-feeling Dr. Seuss decided to write his own version of "Everybody Poops". The result might be "What Do You Do with Your Poo?", a hilariously taboo children's book from writer Courtney Ball and illustrator Lana Hadziosmanovic.
While there's plenty of bathroom humor, young readers will also learn fun facts about why animals do such crazy things with their poo, such as the hippos from Nigeria who "eat their mothers' poop to get the right bacteria."
A perfect gift for that child whose parent you might want to make a little squeamish, "What Do You Do with Your Poo?" is a fun romp through the fascinating world of animal feces.
Imagine if a feisty-feeling Dr. Seuss decided to write his own version of "Everybody Poops". The result might be "What Do You Do with Your Poo?", a hilariously taboo children's book from writer Courtney Ball and illustrator Lana Hadziosmanovic.
While there's plenty of bathroom humor, young readers will also learn fun facts about why animals do such crazy things with their poo, such as the hippos from Nigeria who "eat their mothers' poop to get the right bacteria."
A perfect gift for that child whose parent you might want to make a little squeamish, "What Do You Do with Your Poo?" is a fun romp through the fascinating world of animal feces.
34 pages, Hardcover
Published September 17, 2024
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September 5, 2025
Courtney Ball’s “What Do You Do with Your Poo?” is a charming trigger for giggles. And open ended questions parents, caregivers, and teachers alike could use. As an opportunity to engage an often taboo topic of a function living beings go through daily into a playful learning journey.
Explore through cooperative learning using science, art, writing, research, and further reading. Exploring why animals do as they doo, I mean do 😆
Example, the book mentions rabbits. But do not say why they eat what comes out of their bottom.
Years ago, witnessing a pet bunny eating of droppings explored further. Learned this body function helps them gain nutrients to live healthy lives. Understanding this made want to learn more about Little Bunny Foo Foo’s nutrition needs to ensure her poo was cool. Which helped understand Harley’s, a later addition following Foo Foo’s passing, needs as a bunny. And, the Hassenfpheffers, Latte’ Bob and Princess who were our last cotton tailed friends and class pets.
Without having a bunny or four never would have had this interest to understand. The book encourages curiosity. Exploration. And adults can lay the path for this regardless of at school or home.
For parents, care givers, and teachers, the sample explanation below is full of details that would need to be modified or defined depending on the age of the reader or listener. But is an example of how much more we can learn from the story inspiration to cooperative learning experiences expanding interest with our young listeners and readers.
“Rabbits are foraging herbivores, eating mostly grass and weeds. But this fibrous, cellulose rich diet isn’t the easiest to digest, and by the time their dinner has make it through their intestines it still contains many of the nutrients the bunnies need.
Rabbits and hares beat this problem with a special kind of digestion called hindgut fermentation. In short, they eat their own poop and digest it a second time. Bunnies actually make two different kinds of droppings: little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes that are eaten. This process is known as coprophagy, and functions the same as cows chewing their cud.
It’s very important for a rabbit’s digestive system to keep moving fluidly, as they need to re-ingest their cecotropes in order to get the nutrients they need. If anything gets stuck in a bunny’s esophagus or intestines, they’re out of luck, since they’re incapable of vomiting.”
Older students could divide the class into groups representing each animal. Using an outline of questions from the book and query student ideas to add to the research list. Make this a treasure hunt for answers. Results could be combined in an Animal Anthology of Poo: What We Do With Our Poo and Other Fun Facts.
Create illustrations for art class using different materials and supplies. Representing the new lessons learned.
Students can do a story telling event. Where each group shares what it knows from the investigation of information available and interviews with rabbit owners.
Science experiments using materials under supervision depending on the age group could reveal some interesting facts. Partner with comparing and contrast activities, like who needs to eat their poo verses who cannot and why. Enter science.
Fun fact: gardening uses certain poo waste, like from bunnies. Conclude, we all eat poo through our food. The science lesson can include creating compost and examining it over time using rabbit and other waste. Units on nutrition and wellness can be added to study topics.
Mr Ball’s book inspires creative lesson plans for students involving research, reports, create art, and explore nature. Encourage life long learning skills to develop in other areas.
Curiosity is a key skill to problem solving. This book will leave readers of all ages enthusiastic to explore further when encouraged with open ended questions.
Such as, why would any creature need to eat something we are taught is full of germs?
Not all poo is created equal. An activity to compare and contrast waste could involve experiments, interviews of people like veterinarians and human being doctors.
The rhythmic flow of the story makes for an audience captivator. In a classroom to small groups as tiny as one, the book has a catchy poetic tone that is certain to help memorization and recitation adding to the delight this topic shares.
Even though grown up, found myself laughing at a few unexpected parts the first read through. Including illustrations. After paging through the inside noticed upon further examination the cover has a tush to the right and the question mark is … in the words of one of the rhymes, made up of turds.
Children like taboo topics. Silly rhymes. Being inspired to listen and learn. This book covers these and more.
Ooh, another fun fact not in the book but is inspired by the story from memory, birds do not poo on people, places, or things. The goo that plops is their pee and poo.
“Birds do not pee in the way mammals do, but they do excrete their liquid waste, which is effectively the same as peeing, as part of their droppings.Instead of producing liquid urine, birds convert nitrogenous waste from protein metabolism into uric acid, a less toxic, water-insoluble substance that forms a white, pasty paste. This uric acid is mixed with solid feces in a shared chamber called the cloaca, a multipurpose opening used for excretion, reproduction, and egg-laying.
When birds defecate, they release both the white uric acid (their "pee") and the dark fecal matter together through the cloaca. Therefore, when you see bird droppings, you are witnessing a combined excretion of both urine and feces. This system conserves water, which is crucial for birds' survival, especially during flight.
While most birds release waste in this combined form, ostriches are an exception, as they can release liquid urine separately from their feces.”
Inspired by Paul Harvey, “and now you know the rest of the story.” A famous commentator of details, this book reminds me how he approached topics explored through curiosity. A life skill for all ages.
For youngsters demystifying how an animal’s body functions is a doorway to exploring how we work. Including why nutrients are so important for critters and us to grow up and maintain a healthy body.
Open ended questions throughout the book asking what we think or would choose pave the way for learning.
This can lead to lessons on nutrition and self care. Understanding ourselves as we grow can lead to better wellness and happier lives.
As a writer and reviewer wish to encourage readers to think outside a story. Expand the theme. Books trigger new worlds or ideas. Open doors to learning more by asking open ended questions. Encourage life long learning. Especially through topics that make us laugh. Like, help us uncover the mystery, What Do You Do with Your Poo?
The age group listed on Amazon is three to 12. But to me, could go younger and if adults are honest, the ones helping read the story, most would admit this book grossed them out. Made them laugh. And brought up questions they did not know existed and took them to a search engine.
This is the type of book we need more of. Life long learning with laughs.
The biggest question I came away needing an answer for, how on earth is the wombat’s poo shaped like a block?
I used the Brave app search engine to ask my question and the answer is impressive. Must be where the saying crap a brick came from, literally 😆
Hope the story helps you consider supporting this first time author. And your listeners and readers alike to explore more of how biology works
💩💩💩💩💩 🏆
Explore through cooperative learning using science, art, writing, research, and further reading. Exploring why animals do as they doo, I mean do 😆
Example, the book mentions rabbits. But do not say why they eat what comes out of their bottom.
Years ago, witnessing a pet bunny eating of droppings explored further. Learned this body function helps them gain nutrients to live healthy lives. Understanding this made want to learn more about Little Bunny Foo Foo’s nutrition needs to ensure her poo was cool. Which helped understand Harley’s, a later addition following Foo Foo’s passing, needs as a bunny. And, the Hassenfpheffers, Latte’ Bob and Princess who were our last cotton tailed friends and class pets.
Without having a bunny or four never would have had this interest to understand. The book encourages curiosity. Exploration. And adults can lay the path for this regardless of at school or home.
For parents, care givers, and teachers, the sample explanation below is full of details that would need to be modified or defined depending on the age of the reader or listener. But is an example of how much more we can learn from the story inspiration to cooperative learning experiences expanding interest with our young listeners and readers.
“Rabbits are foraging herbivores, eating mostly grass and weeds. But this fibrous, cellulose rich diet isn’t the easiest to digest, and by the time their dinner has make it through their intestines it still contains many of the nutrients the bunnies need.
Rabbits and hares beat this problem with a special kind of digestion called hindgut fermentation. In short, they eat their own poop and digest it a second time. Bunnies actually make two different kinds of droppings: little black round ones and softer black ones known as cecotropes that are eaten. This process is known as coprophagy, and functions the same as cows chewing their cud.
It’s very important for a rabbit’s digestive system to keep moving fluidly, as they need to re-ingest their cecotropes in order to get the nutrients they need. If anything gets stuck in a bunny’s esophagus or intestines, they’re out of luck, since they’re incapable of vomiting.”
Older students could divide the class into groups representing each animal. Using an outline of questions from the book and query student ideas to add to the research list. Make this a treasure hunt for answers. Results could be combined in an Animal Anthology of Poo: What We Do With Our Poo and Other Fun Facts.
Create illustrations for art class using different materials and supplies. Representing the new lessons learned.
Students can do a story telling event. Where each group shares what it knows from the investigation of information available and interviews with rabbit owners.
Science experiments using materials under supervision depending on the age group could reveal some interesting facts. Partner with comparing and contrast activities, like who needs to eat their poo verses who cannot and why. Enter science.
Fun fact: gardening uses certain poo waste, like from bunnies. Conclude, we all eat poo through our food. The science lesson can include creating compost and examining it over time using rabbit and other waste. Units on nutrition and wellness can be added to study topics.
Mr Ball’s book inspires creative lesson plans for students involving research, reports, create art, and explore nature. Encourage life long learning skills to develop in other areas.
Curiosity is a key skill to problem solving. This book will leave readers of all ages enthusiastic to explore further when encouraged with open ended questions.
Such as, why would any creature need to eat something we are taught is full of germs?
Not all poo is created equal. An activity to compare and contrast waste could involve experiments, interviews of people like veterinarians and human being doctors.
The rhythmic flow of the story makes for an audience captivator. In a classroom to small groups as tiny as one, the book has a catchy poetic tone that is certain to help memorization and recitation adding to the delight this topic shares.
Even though grown up, found myself laughing at a few unexpected parts the first read through. Including illustrations. After paging through the inside noticed upon further examination the cover has a tush to the right and the question mark is … in the words of one of the rhymes, made up of turds.
Children like taboo topics. Silly rhymes. Being inspired to listen and learn. This book covers these and more.
Ooh, another fun fact not in the book but is inspired by the story from memory, birds do not poo on people, places, or things. The goo that plops is their pee and poo.
“Birds do not pee in the way mammals do, but they do excrete their liquid waste, which is effectively the same as peeing, as part of their droppings.Instead of producing liquid urine, birds convert nitrogenous waste from protein metabolism into uric acid, a less toxic, water-insoluble substance that forms a white, pasty paste. This uric acid is mixed with solid feces in a shared chamber called the cloaca, a multipurpose opening used for excretion, reproduction, and egg-laying.
When birds defecate, they release both the white uric acid (their "pee") and the dark fecal matter together through the cloaca. Therefore, when you see bird droppings, you are witnessing a combined excretion of both urine and feces. This system conserves water, which is crucial for birds' survival, especially during flight.
While most birds release waste in this combined form, ostriches are an exception, as they can release liquid urine separately from their feces.”
Inspired by Paul Harvey, “and now you know the rest of the story.” A famous commentator of details, this book reminds me how he approached topics explored through curiosity. A life skill for all ages.
For youngsters demystifying how an animal’s body functions is a doorway to exploring how we work. Including why nutrients are so important for critters and us to grow up and maintain a healthy body.
Open ended questions throughout the book asking what we think or would choose pave the way for learning.
This can lead to lessons on nutrition and self care. Understanding ourselves as we grow can lead to better wellness and happier lives.
As a writer and reviewer wish to encourage readers to think outside a story. Expand the theme. Books trigger new worlds or ideas. Open doors to learning more by asking open ended questions. Encourage life long learning. Especially through topics that make us laugh. Like, help us uncover the mystery, What Do You Do with Your Poo?
The age group listed on Amazon is three to 12. But to me, could go younger and if adults are honest, the ones helping read the story, most would admit this book grossed them out. Made them laugh. And brought up questions they did not know existed and took them to a search engine.
This is the type of book we need more of. Life long learning with laughs.
The biggest question I came away needing an answer for, how on earth is the wombat’s poo shaped like a block?
I used the Brave app search engine to ask my question and the answer is impressive. Must be where the saying crap a brick came from, literally 😆
Hope the story helps you consider supporting this first time author. And your listeners and readers alike to explore more of how biology works
💩💩💩💩💩 🏆
December 3, 2024
I read this book on the toilet and loved the illustrations!
January 16, 2025
What Do You Do with Your Poo? by Courtney Ball, with illustrations by Lana Hadziosmanovic, is a playful, informative, and humorous exploration of the surprising ways animals interact with their poop. Through rhyming text and humorous illustrations, readers learn fascinating facts about how creatures like rabbits, dung beetles, hippos, and koalas use, eat, or even fling their feces. The book takes readers on an amusing journey, encouraging curiosity and giggles while sneaking in science about nature’s most overlooked topic. The story ends by prompting readers to think about their own habits with poo in a fun and non-judgmental way.
Courtney Ball masterfully combines humor and education in What Do You Do with Your Poo?, turning an icky subject into an engaging adventure for children. The rhymes are catchy and clever, making the book a joy to read aloud. Lana Hadziosmanovic’s illustrations add to the humor by depicting animals in hilarious scenarios with their poo, perfectly matching the playful tone of the text. Kids will laugh out loud at the quirky habits of hippos, koalas, and dung beetles while unknowingly learning about biology and animal behavior.
This book’s gross-out appeal is perfectly balanced with its educational value, making it a hit with both children and adults. It's ideal for sparking conversations about nature, waste, and even hygiene in an approachable and lighthearted way. Readers will appreciate the perfect blend of science and silliness in its poo-centric humor.
Courtney Ball masterfully combines humor and education in What Do You Do with Your Poo?, turning an icky subject into an engaging adventure for children. The rhymes are catchy and clever, making the book a joy to read aloud. Lana Hadziosmanovic’s illustrations add to the humor by depicting animals in hilarious scenarios with their poo, perfectly matching the playful tone of the text. Kids will laugh out loud at the quirky habits of hippos, koalas, and dung beetles while unknowingly learning about biology and animal behavior.
This book’s gross-out appeal is perfectly balanced with its educational value, making it a hit with both children and adults. It's ideal for sparking conversations about nature, waste, and even hygiene in an approachable and lighthearted way. Readers will appreciate the perfect blend of science and silliness in its poo-centric humor.
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