I Stink

Mc Mullan, Kate and Jim McMullan. I Stink! New York: Joanna Cotler Books, 2002.

Late at night, the garbage truck goes in search of breakfast through the streets. An alphabet “soup” of trash fills his hopper. The story follows the garbage truck until it dumps its load onto a barge in the river and goes home.

While this book educates children about the necessity of garbage trucks, the font and typesetting of the book make it interesting. One can almost hear the sounds made by the truck by the way the words are written on the page.

What others have to say…

“A vehicle of monstrous size and sound effects with an urban beat roll this story right along.”

2003. "I Stink! (Book)." School Library Journal 49, no. 10: 36-36. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed May 8, 2009).