Awards

• 2020-2021 Mockingbird Reading Program List
• 2021-2022 Great Texas Mosquito Reading List
• Kirkus Best Children's Books
• Massachusetts Book Awards

Overview

Eek, you reek, You make a funk. Where you have been Things stink, stank, stunk. You've left a path, A swath of smell, And—yuck! You did it very well. Warning: this book reeks! It's rotten, rancid, foul, and funky. Within these pages, you'll find stinkbugs, weasels, Tasmanian devils, and a particularly pungent musk ox. Fourteen foul poems from Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple introduce this repugnant selection of animals, and magnificently malodorous illustrations from Eugenia Nobati showcase them in all their noxious glory. Ready to find out more? Plug your nose and read on . . .

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Reviews

""[T]he foolish foulness may just hook those who think poetry stinks. Rancid rhymes and syncopated stank and plenty of eeeew just for you.""—starred, Kirkus Reviews ""Both educational and hilarious, this fun book of poetry written by Yolen and Stemple will not only please language arts teachers but will appease science teachers.""—School Library Journal

Author Information

Heidi E. Y. Stemple is the author of more than forty books and numerous short stories and poems, mostly for children. She lives and writes on a farm in Massachusetts. Jane Yolen lives in Massachusetts and has written more than 400 books across all genres and age ranges, including the Sydney Taylor Honor book Miriam at the River. In 2022 she was named the The Sydney Taylor Body-of-Work Winner. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Eugenia Nobati is an illustrator based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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