The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business

Early in her kindergarten career, Lia was not happy about going to kindergarten. This was made evident by much weeping and gnashing of teeth (enough that on a particularly rushed and stressful day, when Lia was throwing a fit, we ended up taking her home).
To try to turn kindergarten into a daily routine, and a fun experience, I decided to read Lia a book each day at kindergarten as I dropped her off. The book first book she picked was all in German, but Lia made me translate the story, which unfolded as follows:

A mole decides to explore the wide world above, and pokes its head above ground one morning. A second later, someone defecates on the mole's head. (See the drawing above. Yes, that`s excrement.)
On the next page, the mole starts going around trying to find the culprit, and we are introduced to a graphic tour of all the animals which inhabit the barnyard. Each time, the shape/size/style of the animal's droppings is wrong, so the mole concludes that it wasn't the horse... it wasn't the cow... etc...
Finally, it gives up and some flies come buzzing around (yes, the pile of droppings is still on the mole's head throughout the whole story). The flies reveal to our protagonist (through their advanced sense of taste) that it is dog poop. The mole decides to confront the sleeping dog in the farmyard, but at the last minute decides against it, and defecates on the dog's head instead.

The End.

This story became Lia's favourite book, and required-reading every day for about two weeks.
I thought this might just be an interesting cultural difference between Canada and Germany, but it turns out that it's a UK book. Go figure.

-Marc