My Lists
Featured Lists
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 10, 2022 | Nonfiction Elementary
K-Gr 3—Gholz has found a topic that matters to every reader. She carefully traces the development of "potty tools" from the days of early humans to the present. Comical illustrations show Neanderthals in animal skins carrying leaves and early Mesopotamians emptying chamber pots. Readers will be particularly glad that the Roman custom of a communal tersorium ("bum brush") is a thing of the past. Significant advances such as the invention of paper or the flushing toil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More