My Big Fat Smelly Poo Diary : Tight Squeeze
Jim Smith
Scholastic

Writer of the titular diary is Pedro. He has two friends named Olga and Ozzy: arranged as a acrostic, this spells – well you work it out. They’re actually known as the Poopies.

Pedro’s first ‘story’ is entitled My Invention and was prompted by a total absence of toilet rolls in the supermarket due to stockpiling. The tale begins on a Monday morning with their teacher announcing that the local supermarket is running a poster competition showing a product invented by the poster’s creator. Said product will then be manufactured and sold at the supermarket. Some interesting things become the subject of posters including Pedro’s pooh shooz. Pedro is convinced he will be announced as the winner. Not so!

As they walk home together after school the friends see a huge billboard advertising the winning invention which sparks an idea; – a LOO roll business venture. There follows a family supermarket visit that includes Granny, which doesn’t quite go to plan as she gets herself involved in a showdown: who’d have thought she had it in her.

Then there’s toilet roll monster trouble (to keep or not to keep), the coming of Storm Pedro when home-made fart masks come in very useful despite being a tad on the tight side, a sleepover of the pals, a final resolution of the toilet roll monster disagreement, and more.

Overflowing with feelings of friendship, aromas of the whiffy kind, and toilet humour, these crazy wipe-size stories are certain to go down well with Pedro’s human followers and other fans of stinkingly funny
graphic style dramas.