There was a smell on Stinky Street...and it was awfully, abominably odorous. From smelly sewers to pongy penguins there's always a rotten reek on Stinky Street...
This is the second book in the series Stinky Street Stories. You don't need to have read the first to follow it. Basically, it's a set of linked short stories set in the same street, about the smelly adventures of Brian and his friend Nerf.
In the first story, "The Awfully Abominable Odour", Brian explains that, in fact, Stinky Street is named for inventor Ferdinand Stinky, who invented Stinky's Patented Stench-proof Sewers, which ensure that Stinky Street doesn't stink. When a dreadful odour comes up from the sewer - so bad that Nerf nearly faitnts on Brian's doorstep -Brian and Nerf go to investigate, armed with pickles stuffed up their noses...
In "Stinky Vs Sweet: The House Of Horrors" Brian and Nerf compete with their enemies, the girls from Sweet Street at the school fete to do the best fundraising activity. Needless to say, they end up stinking, with lots of disgusting stuff over them...
"Smelly Birthday To Me" takes the boys into the local zoo as Brian's birthday present, where they get to be zookeepers for a day. Unfortunately, zookeeping is not what they thought it would be, and involves a lot of guano aka poo, especially after Brian's kazoo is snatched by an escaped monkey and they follow it through a very smelly zoo...
"The Super-Stinky Treasure" takes the boys to Great-Uncle McStinky's farm, and a search for treasure, involving - you guessed it! - a lot of smelly stuff...
It struck me as I read that this would be a good book for a teacher or librarian to read, a chapter at a time, to a primary school class. Kids love gross stuff! If it had been produced as a larger volume, the teacher would be able to share Jules Faber's amusingly-drawn cartoon illustrations.
But it will do very well in the school library too, for children to enjoy themselves. In fact, I am going to donate it to my local primary school library as soon as I have written this review. No point in keeping it in my home when children could be enjoying it!
Recommended for children from about Year 3 upwards.
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