The hullabaloo about elephant poo by Dee White & Christopher Nielsen

This story, sure to attract lots of attention with twin themes of elephants and poo, bolstered by its pages of laugh out loud illustrations, will be one that children ask to be read over and over again. Wonderful cheeky rhymes will entice readers to predict the rhyming words and repeat the verses with the reader.

And to be able to talk about bottoms and behinds and poo will strike a chord with all readers. Surprisingly elephant poo has a number of uses. Cleaned and separated, small nuggets can be ground for coffee, while it can be mulched for the garden, and prepared, can be used to make paper, while burning some of it is a good mozzie repellant, concluding that; 

There’s really no need for the hullabaloo
Elephants are awesome and so is their poo.

Lots of wonderful alliterations will entice the reader to look at all the images of bottoms in the story while watching the uses the poo is used for and kids will be enchanted with the bright images before them, showing the elephant in a pile of different poses. An elephant on the loo will cause much hilarity, prompting children to think of elephants in other unusual places, not necessarily having a poo. And readers will love the use the pairs of words for themselves, adding more as they read. 

Great fun for the readers and the listeners, Hullabaloo about elephant poo is a verse story to read often, remarking on all the uses the poo can be made for, while examining the meaning of the word hullabaloo, and listening to all the different words used for behind. Lots of elephants inhabit the first endpaper while the last gives children a snakes and ladders game to play. Teacher's notes are available.

Themes: Excrement, Poo, Elephants, Toilets, Humour, Verse.

Fran Knight