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Author: Edge, Suzie, Newell, Luke

For National Curriculum Key Stage 2

Published on 11 April 2024 by Hachette Children’s Group (Wren & Rook) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the History Stinks!’ series.

Paperback | 192 pages
128 x 197 x 17 | 174g

What’s that smell? It’s HISTORY – and it STINKS!Did you know that you can discover loads about history just from the loo? Or piles about the past just from a poo? If not, then get ready to discover everything from Henry VIII’s dodgy diet and Aztec poop canoes to giant, fossilizsed Viking plops, poo-tastic Roman plumbing, the stinky secrets of Victorian sewers, smelly cesspits, medieval muck and more.

From Saxons and Tudors to ancient Greece, the Indus Valley and beyond, Poo Through the Ages features mighty monarchs, bonkers battles, deadly diseases, foul-smelling faeces and poo, poo, poo. Packed with fascinating facts, hilarious illustrations and the smelliest stories from our pongy past, get ready to dive into the smelliest corners of history!’My child can’t wait to go to bed every night to read the ‘poo book’. It’s easily the best book I’ve read to my kids in a while!’ – Amazon Reviewer