History Stinks!

Poo Through the Ages

Suzie Edge, Luke Newell, Suzie Edge

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Wren & Rook
09 July 2024

Children's & Educational; History & the past: general interest (Children's&YA)

Series: History Stinks!

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!

By: Suzie Edge
Illustrated by: Luke Newell
Read by: Suzie Edge
Imprint: Wren & Rook
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9781526366559
ISBN 10: 152636655X
Series: History Stinks!
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 09 July 2024
Recommended Age: From 7 to 9 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzie Edge (Author) Suzie Edge trained as a biologist before becoming a medical doctor, to spend more time talking to people, rather than just bugs in test tubes. She's worked as a doctor in infectious diseases, haematology, and trauma and orthopaedic surgery. She has also completed a MLitt in Modern History to feed her fascination for the history of the human body and medicine. She loves discovering the real historical stories of how we have treated our human bodies in life and in death. She has over 7.6 million likes and 380,000 followers on TikTok, who love tuning into her stories of gruesome and fascinating medical history. She has been nominated for BookTok Author of the Year 2023.