Camden Haven author Sue Baker is hosting a party with a difference for children aged 8-14 years who are interested in animals and nature.

Following the success of the Poo Dunnit parties at Port and Laurieton libraries last year, the Sea Acres events will be held at 10.30am and 2pm and bookings are essential by phoning 6582 3355.

Activities will include matching a variety of animal scat samples to their correct ‘depositors’, and looking at all the way scats are different and why. When is it important to be able to identify scats?

Materials will be on hand to create a scat for a fantasy creature.

Can the kids fool Sue’s character Granny Pobblebonk, an expert animal tracker and key figure in the educational children’s book, The Pobblebonk Earth Detective Club? Sue will also share some stories of her animal tracking adventures in Africa.

Poo Dunnit is a chapter in her book where three children, who have set up an Earth Detective Club, must solve the problem of who is killing their neighbour’s chooks.

They are thrust into the world of tracks and scats in a race against time to absolve their pet dog, which the cranky old neighbour has blamed for the crime.

Bring the children along, find out more about the book and what a Pobblebonk actually is. Perhaps combine the activity with a walk through Sea Acres.