In series 2a of the latest Dung Beetle guide, Mummy, Peter and Jane go through an indefinite period of self isolation at home during the Lockdown. In this solitary time, the children will be forcibly adapted to the 'new normal', where they have no real life fiends, no purpose, and are conditioned to see their peers as portable germ vessels. Dung Beetle is doing this for the benefit and care of the terminally ill.

Trapped in a cage with a wheel that taunts him with its meaninglessness, Edward records the existential ennui that is the sum of his short life. His diary is an extraordinary work, filled with profound meditations on the nature of captivity, the emptiness of life, and the irrational will to live. This revised edition is imbued with new meaning in a post pandemic world. Edward is not just a hamster - he is a state of mind.

We see the sights follows Mummy, Susan and John on a jolly sightseeing trip of post covid London. As our family re-emerge from two years of lockdown into the heart of their city, things have subtly changed. St Paul's cathedral is now St Primark, The Tower of London has brought back hate-speech beheading, and Westminster is now waxwork museum. Throughout the trip, various drones hover around monitoring the children's 'social credit' score. This book is a humorous reflection on a society pretending to function normally.

In the 2022 Dung Beetle Calendar, Elia has brought together 'The Best Of' the 'Dung Beetle New Words Reading Scheme'. Twelve of her favourite and most popular pages from Dung Beetle Books (2014-2020) have been handpicked and are showcased through the months of the year 2022, with handy spaces to record your plans. Time passes all the time. We at Dung Beetle Books want to help you to keep track of it, and so have devised this entirely original 'calendar book', which details all of the days and months in the year 2022 - each accompanied by a specially selected image from our ancient archives - so that you may count them as they pass, and insert notes of any apparently vital plans of your own. We at Dung Beetle Books believe that life is only manageable with reference to a divinely or scientifically ordained central authority, and so require that you forward any such plans to your relevant representative of tyrannical rule, before committing them to the pages of this calendar. We also wish you all the best in your constant, pointless struggle with the inevitable chaos of everything, and hope this product proves a useful tool in pretending that it isn't. Ezra Elia (Head of Mental Manure Development) & Miriam Elia (Director of Defecation) Features 'the best of' works from the Dung Beetle Reading Scheme 1a We go to the gallery, 1b We learn at home, 1c We go out, 1d We do Christmas & 2a We do Lockdown. All images by Miriam Elia, writing Miriam Elia & Ezra Elia. Graphic Design by Becky Philp.

Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain , simple English? With this new Dung Beetle book, both parents and young children can learn about contemporary art, and understand many of its key themes. Join John and Susan on their exciting journey through the art exhibition, where, with Mummy's help, they will discover the real meaning of all the contemporary art works from empty rooms, to vagina paintings or giant inflatable dogs.

In book 1d of the Dung Beetle Learning series, Mummy, John and Susan are taken on a thrilling Christmas adventure. By interrogating Santa Claus and exposing his 'vicious programme of indoctrination,' Mummy proceeds to strip Christmas of all its magic and meaning, for the benefit of mankind. Originally based on the Private Eye Christmas special, this book will joyfully ruin the Yuletide festival period for children and adults alike.

Piggy goes to Uni is the story of a precocious young pig, and his rise to the forefront of the Anti-Piggest socialist Justice Movement. When he leaves his rural community for Central State University, he learns of the terrible legacy of Pig-Imperialism, and that words and ideas can be just as violent as actual acts of genocide. With the help of his comrades, Piggy elects to become a hero of the oppressed, and to ban anyone from saying anything that might hurt someone's feelings. And yet, in creating a world of absolute kindness, he soon finds himself at the mercy of his own extremist rhetoric.

In book 1c of the Dung Beetle Learning series, mummy takes Susan and John out for an exciting day trip in London, as part of their new re-education programme. Looking, thinking and re-evaluating the world around them is a crucial part of a child's core development. A simple stroll down the local high street is magically illuminated by mummy's insights into the nature of society, religion, art and the various other forms of hierarchal or patriarchal oppression.

In book 1b of the Dung Beetle Learning series, Mummy takes John and Susan out of their local school to be re-educated at home, and introduce to their young minds a new, alternative world view. In order to do so, mummy will ground all learning in a feelings-based outlook, free of any actual facts or skills, and re-evaluate core subjects such as mathematics, religion, philosophy and art.