The Phantom Pooper Written by Jim Smith. Reviewed by Ben, Age 8

If I had to describe this story in 9 words I would say: Pooh pooh poop pooooooo pooper doggy droppings faeces
The layout is a graphic novel with pictures in all colours.

One of the characters, Pedro, is bright yellow like the Simpsons. I liked how idiotic the book was because then you can laugh at it. I liked the front cover and the title.

In the book there is a game of ‘want or need’. People want toilet paper but don’t need toilet paper because in ye olde times people used moss! Every time they fart a pedometer comes up as ‘+1 step’.

You don’t want to pick up your own dog’s poo do you? So there’s a classic ‘pebble manoeuvre’ trick in the book. Throw a pebble on the ground, pick it up, put it in a dog bag. When someone asks you ‘have you picked up your dog’s poo?’ you say ‘yes I have’ because they can clearly see the stone inside which looks like dog poo.

I would recommend this to people in year 2 and below (up to age 7).