Stinky

Davis, E. (2018). Stinky. New York, NY: The Little Lit Library.

Stinky is a monster that lives in a smelly swamp. He likes his smell home, his smelly, food, and his smelly life. One day he notices a tree house in his swamp. He figures a child has built the shelter in his swamp and since he doesn't like kids, decides to scare him out of there. He puts his toad Wartbelly in the tree house to scare out the kid. Stinky thinks the kid would not like Wartbelly because kids do not like gross stuff. His plan backfires and the boy, Nick, likes the toad and renames him Daisy. Stinky is now on a mission to get his friend back from Nick. Several plans fail. Stinky steals Nick's hammer and he dresses up as a ghost. Nick doesn't seem to worry too much when his hammer goes missing. And the ghost doesn't scare him. When he discovers it was Stinky who was trying to scare him, Stinky runs off with Nick chasing him. Nick looses his hat in the chase. Stinky gets the hat and throws it down a pit. He begins to feel bad when he sees that Nick really did love the hat. He gets it from the pit and gives it back to the boy. Nick doesn't seem to mind that there is a monster around so they become friends.

I would describe this as a graphic novel. The story is told in panels and each panel shows a different action from the characters. It is once again intended for your readers.There is not a lot of text per page bur there is a lot of pictures. The end covers at the begging of the book is a double page spread and shows a map. This would peak the interest of some readers I'm sure.