Dung Beetle Press

  • Things to make and do

    £9.99

    Are you struggling to pay the bills and keep your children entertained in a cost of living crisis? Or are you simply worried that your children are spending too much time glued to numerous screens, watching endless asinine nonsense? Dung Beetle provide an answer, with a book that can keep children and adults happily and rewardingly occupied for many hours, using simple inexpensive and readily available materials. We present a set of 20 thought-provoking toys that can be made from simple objects around the house.

  • The Diary of Edward the Hamster

    £9.99

    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

    £9.99

    ‘Human rights’ and ‘freedoms’ are thrown into the garbage can of history, as Mummy bestows her complete reason and unquestioning faith towards ‘the science’. In the vibrant illustrations we see Susan and John slavishly obeying a canon of Mummy’s brutal rules to control nature and defy death. Recruited into a secret government ‘science’ think tank, Mummy’s scientific observations (using worst-case scenario models and carefully picked data), demonstrate to John and Susan how ‘the science’ is the pinnacle of modern thought and our only salvation.

  • The Dung Beetle Books Calendar 2022

    £12.99

    In the 2022 Dung Beetle Books 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.

  • We Do Lockdown

    £8.99

    Mummy, John and Susan 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.

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