We love irreverent picture books in our house because we can all have a laugh together. While at the beach over the weekend we bought a copy of Peek A Poo What’s In Your Nappy? by Guido Van Genechten because while we were in the shop Ned’s dad and I couldn’t stop giggling so we just knew Ned would like it too.
The main character is a mouse who is very inquisitive and decides that he would like to discover what is in each of his friends’ pants. The friends have nappies that are lift the flap so that when Mouse asks if he can have a look, it’s the reader who can reveal what is in the nappy! We see rabbit has seven pellets, dog has a poo with a pointy end, cow has ‘One big fresh cow pat’, etc
Besides the fact that we all find it terribly funny there is actually a message in the madness. When his friends ask Mouse what is in his nappy he proudly shows them that it is empty.
Mouse does his poo in the potty, he shows his friends and then they all want to have a go. Ned has related really well to the story both for its humorous style and also for its practical description of what is in the nappies and about going to the toilet. He doesn’t like going to the potty at all but will sit on the toilet and I think he thinks that they are one in the same anyway.
Like Katie says in her post about potty training books I liked this book because no one used the potty as a hat and although the Mouse likes to look in the nappy of his friends there is no playing with the contents! The illustrations are great and it is fun to read aloud – a little gem of a book.
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