I Stink! (Kate and Jim Mcmullan)

McMullan, Kate; McMullan, Jim

ISBN 10: 0060298499 ISBN 13: 9780060298494

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

A big city garbage truck makes its nighttime rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini. 35,000 first printing.

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Review:

5 stars - Eating your rubbish and loving every smelly second of it! (www.bettybookmark.co.uk)

Ideal for fans of big machines, the book is crowded with 'noise', bold, chaotic text set against brightly coloured pages, and dark threatening illustrations of the hulking vehicles. Most striking is the enormous range of vocabulary, detailing parts of the vehicles and the amazing assortment of things that the vehicles dispose of ('wonky washing machines', 'burned out barbecues'...) (Nursery Education)

For two-to-four year olds who can't get enough of this glad to be grubby exuberance. (Financial Times)

Robust hardback about a big machine that is dirty and smelly but extremely useful and full of action and humour. (Books for Keeps)

The illustrations by Jim McMullan are dark and dramatic, highlighting the solitary streets and the nightly routine of the rubbish lorry. (INIS)

About the Author:

Kate McMullan is the author of the easy-to-read books featuring Fluffy, the Classroom Guinea Pig, the middle grade series Dragon Slayers' Academy, and Myth-o-Mania, the Greek myths as told by Hades. She is also the author of the Geisel Honor Book Pearl and Wagner: One Funny Day.

Kate and Jim McMullan have collaborated on many popular picture books, including I'm Brave!; I'm Fast!; I'm Big!; I'm Bad!; I'm Dirty!; and I Stink!, a New York Times Best Illustrated Book and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book. The McMullans live in Sag Harbor, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0060298499
• ISBN 13: 9780060298494
• Binding: Library Binding