Hamish and the Terrible Poo

By Gavin Comtesse

Take the challenge and think of a scheme of ridding a five-year-old boy of his terrible problem. Think outside the box, leave no stone unturned, consult everyone you know, and the problem might still be there.

Inside this book are six chapters explaining an ordeal so terrible you will have to read them to find out. Go from one hairbrain scheme to another and live the experience with Hamish as he tries to rid himself of the terrible poo.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jul 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466997622

Gavin Comtesse

Gavin Comtesse was born on May 13, 1980, in Adelaide, Australia. After completing high school, he joined the army and spent thirteen years in service, in that time serving overseas on several occasions. While overseas, Gavin discovered his passion for writing by jotting poetry in his notebook in times of low activity. Having read his poems to a select crowd, Gavin soon developed a love for the pen. Gavin left the army and became a teacher. While doing this, he expanded his writing skills from poetry to children’s books. He wrote Hamish and the Terrible Poo as a tool to encourage one of his five children when toilet training. Gavin now live in country New South Wales, Australia, with his beautiful wife and five wonderful children, which are his constant sources of inspiration.

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Copyright 2013 Gavin Comtesse.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9761-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9760-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4669-9762-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013910099

Trafford rev. 06/03/2013

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 1

H amish was a little boy who was 4 years old.

Hamish did everything that any normal 4 year old would do except one thing. The one thing in the world that he wanted to do more than anything… . Hamish wanted to use the loo to POO!

Hamish had tried everything and nothing would wedge the poo out of him. He pretended he was wearing a nappy, he listened to music on his dad’s iPhone, he even tried standing up then sitting down and still nothing would get the tricky poo out.

Hamish sat down on the toilet for the hundredth time and thought what can I do. It might be time to get out the big guns.

Hamish went to his big brother Cain for some advice. Cain was elbow deep in his drawings. Cain was definitely good at drawing things. Hamish thought that Cain could design and draw a great plan to get this terrible turd out of him.

Cain got to work in his room. There were pencil shavings flying around the room, there were erasers bouncing of the wall and then there were very small lead pencils flying into the bin from over use and finally Cain was done.

Cain grabbed Hamish and said Hamish I think we will have this diabolical dump out by lunch. Hamish was pretty excited as this sounded very promising.

The plan is this my young brother. Firstly