There's a Zoo in my Poo - Felice Jacka

There’s a Zoo in My Poo – Felice Jacka. Illustrated by Rob Craw

Did you know that trillions of tiny bugs live in and on all of us? And there’s a Zoo of bugs in our poo. But which are the good bugs and which are the bad? What should we eat to keep our good bugs happy and our body strong?

Get to the guts of what you need to know about you and your poo.

Professor Felice Jacka is a world expert in the field of Nutritional Psychiatry and gut health. Teacher and musician Rob Craw is a world expert at drawing bugs!

They want kids to know all about the amazing stuff going on in their bodies.

Get ready for a journey inside the most exciting of places … YOU!

My Review of There’s a Zoo in my Poo

When Pan Macmillan offered me this one to read I jumped at the chance. Does that sound weird? I have young children, 6 and 3 years old – and they LOVE anything poo related. I thought they would enjoy this one!

There’s a zoo in my poo is a cute little book that delves into the gut microbiome and describes how important these little critters are to our health and wellbeing. I assumed it would just be a superficial exploration about how important good food is to the zoo, however it is actually goes into quite a depth about our insides.

I started reading this to my 6-year-old. Yes, I must admit it was a bit beyond him. Even though it is aimed at children, there are still a lot of big words and phrases that I thought had him zoning out. I was going to abandon it and save it for a time when he is a little bit bigger. So one night I put it aside.

However… To my surprise, he started asking to read the poo book. I thought he hadn’t retained much of it so I started asking him questions about it and he told me that there are bugs that live in my tummy and poo that help me get healthy and i need to feed them good food.

Well, BLOW ME DOWN! Sure, he doesn’t quite understand what a lot of it means, but he is starting to get the gist of it. The cute illustrations, colourful fonts and lots of talk about fun things (poo, smells, poo trains, snot and boogers) have absolutely left an impression, and the more we read it in future, the more he is going to understand it at a deeper level.

Even my 3-year-old loved the illustrations and knows where her favourite “poo bug” drawings in the book are! Her attention span didn’t last long enough for her to join us in reading it though.

Would I recommend this book?

Yes for sure! Any primary-school-aged child (or even an adult who doesn’t know much about this stuff) will appreciate the clear and fascinating explanations of the wonderful world of our guts and poop!

(5 / 5)