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I Stink!
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I Stink!
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I Stink!
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I Stink!

Written by Kate McMullan and Jim McCullan

Narrated by Andy Richter

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a garbage truck? Live through a raucous and stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck. What fun it is to keep the city clean, by eating a special recipe of alphabet soup!

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJan 1, 2004
ISBN9780545667449
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I Stink!
Author

Kate McMullan

Kate McMullan is the author of the chapter book series Dragon Slayers' Academy as well as easy-readers featuring Fluffy, the Classroom Guinea Pig. She and her illustrator husband, Jim McMullan, have created several award-winning picture books, including I STINK!, I'M DIRTY!, and I'M BIG! Her latest work is SCHOOL! Adventures at Harvey N. Trouble Elementary in collaboration with the famed New Yorker cartoonist, George Booth. Kate and Jim live in Sag Harbor, NY, with two bulldogs and a mews named George.

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Rating: 4.1540696976744185 out of 5 stars
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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    What does a garbage truck do? What does it look like? What do we throw away and what do we recycle? All of these questions can be explored with a little bit of humor through this book. this book shows us and talks about what a garbage truck does and how it works. It show us some examples of the gross and dirty things it has to pick up sometimes. And it tells us those things through the alphabet. This book is a good fantasy because it has a garbage truck with a face that can talk which means it has human characteristics. It also talks about every day items we may use but the garbage truck say those things through the alphabet.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Even if it's not my cup of tea, I'll have to admit that it must hold huge appeal as a read aloud, especially for toddlers/preschoolers. Even just the title, I Stink!, was a big hit with my son already, he knew that was gonna make for some funny reading! He insisted on reading it himself, for his father, didn't maybe struggle but I noticed he was a bit thrown off or confused sometimes by the organization of the book and the typesetting. I didn't care for the illustrations, but they work well with the text. Finally, although not the main focus of the book, three page spreads with one trashy item for each letter of the alphabet give added value to the book and make it double as a concept book as well. I thought that was a nice touch, and that was my favorite part of the book and maybe even the funniest.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book has a rhythmic feel with a wide variety of new vocabulary words, that should be fairly straight-forward for most middle-aged elementary schoolers. The middle section features an alphabet walkthrough focused around gross items that might be found in a garbage truck. Overall, the book is fun to read aloud, the illustrations are colorful and creative, and it offers a new realm of words for students to learn (onomatopoeia, car/truck-related terms, nouns for every letter of the alphabet, actions, etc.). While learning these aspects of language arts, students are also being exposed to true aspects of a career that probably does not get much respect. Unfortunately, the primarily dark color scheme and focus on "gross" objects will most likely point to a primarily male-demographic.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I love Trashy Town! as read by Diana Canova!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fabulous read aloud - the kids adore the disgusting alphabet (apple cores, banana peels...ugly underwear!)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book is a fantasy book because trucks can't really talk. This is a pretty cute book about the pride of a garbage truck. He is very proud to be who he is. Without him, he say, we would be living in "mount trash-o-rama". This book is just very silly.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This book has fun illustrations and would be fun to read aloud. However it is a little one dimensional for my taste. The subject matter of garbage trucks is a little strange too. I could see a little boy enjoying this book a lot but it might not be very entertaining for others.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Do many people know about this wonderful picture book? I think it is too overlooked. While a story about a garbage truck may not sound like a great idea, turns out, it can be. The story is told from the garbage truck's perspective, and the text is fabulous. The words pound out a rhythm that sounds a bit like rap, a bit like bebop, and creates an ode to garbage collecting, a job that is often denigrated but serves such an essential need for our country. Read this book to see how lights flashing, pistons pumping, and engines roaring can be poetic. Also, the alphabet soup in the middle is fun: the garbage truck recounts a sampling of the trash he might eat in a given day, using the alphabet as a structuring technique. Narratively, the book follows the routine of a garbage truck in the city, from the moment it rolls out on the streets until it returns to the garage, garbage collected and compacted and ejected unto the garbage floats. The illustrations are humorous and playful, colorful and yet restricted to twilight shades, in keeping with the night time setting. My family has a good time reading this book together, as the lyrical narrative is great for read alouds and the subject is unique and funny. This is a highly entertaining book, and we're glad to have a personal copy.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book is about a garbage truck that goes through a town picking up and collecting the garbage. There are lots of sound words and noises that the truck makes that are great and appealing for young children. This book would be intended for young elementary age children.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Compared to I'm Big by the same authors, I like this book better because of the humor quality. It's about a garbage truck that goes around literally eating your trash at night. Little kids like that gross factor and reading this aloud, you'll probably hear a lot of "Ewww's" and "yuks," coming from the paste eating, booger picking monsters themselves. This story was funny and it uses a lot of big words and sound words that add to the book wonderfully. It is also educational, teaching the kids about how their garbage is picked up and where it goes. You could use this book to introduce the topic of recycling.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This book is about a garbage truck that goes out at night and eats all the trash. This book is filled with onomatopoeia, alliteration, and unique word choice. The truck ultimately eats up all the trash and then goes to sleep. Kids could find this book humorous and informative because of the wording and the abc's it contains.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book is great because it really appeals to a young boy especially the ones who are not as into reading. The illustrations are gross and right up a little boys alley. I especially like the part of the book where it talks about the trash ABC's including things like smelly sneakers, moldy meatballs. I also enjoyed the unique perspective of a garbage truck.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Charming story about a stinky trash truck! I think kids will absolutely love this book hands down. The alphabet soup part is really fun to read. Really creative with fun illustrations. It is told from the trucks perspective and he is definitely proud of what he does and is excited to share. 5 stars!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Children will love this story, told from the point of view of a garbage truck. The truck collects garbage for every letter of the alphabet and discusses what happens to the garbage when his work is done.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a fun story about a garbage truck that eats everything in sight and loves it! Dirty underwear and stinky diapers are just a few things that get gobbled up by this ever consuming truck. Children will enjoy reading this book! The illustrations are great.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I STINK is an amazing amalgamation of text, image, story ,and rhyme with a kid favorite topic: GARBAGE TRUCKS! Readers will be riveted by in your face text that pops off the page fused with the bold watercolor illustrations that absolutely reek with urban rubbish and attitude. The alphabet soup of refuse consumed will delight children in their revulsion of dirty diapers, gobs of gum, moldy meatballs, and puppy poo. Throw in a lesson of how garbage trucks work told by the vehicle protagonist himself, and you get an alphabet book with attitude enough to appeal to readers of all ages.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I like this book, i read this book with my best friend MOhamed
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The layout is stupendous. This book just feels like a good time. An inside look at what's inside a garbage truck, who has a persona of a blue collar garbage collector. Each stinky piece of garbage is labeled with its beginning letter sound. A stinkin' good time.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A big city garbage truck makes its rounds, consuming everything from apple cores and banana peels to leftover ziti with zucchini (with sound effects!).
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    The book starts out with a dedication to the NYC sanitation department. How often does that happen?The whole length of the book is a garbage truck describing his day (our night, of course). Hence the line "Did I wake you? Well, TOO BAD." (I love that line. It's so true to life! Our garbage trucks always wake us here.)This truck roars, burps, and is proud of his recipe for Alphabet Soup (including such delicacies as Dirty Diapers and Puppy Poo, not to mention Zipped up Ziti with Zucchini). And I love the pride with which our narrator declares that he stinks - but he's got an important job. Without him, as he ways, we're on "Mount Trash-o-rama, baby".I can't say enough good things about this book. Definitely check it out.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a fun book about trash trucks. The reader gets a first-hand experience of a day in the life of a garbage truck. The alphabet is incoporated into the story when the truck starts describing all of the trash he collects (for example, Apple cores, Banana peels, Dirty diapers, etc..). This is a fun book for young readers.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    What goes on while we are sleeping? This trash truck’s engine roars, his breaks squeak, and he even has a reverse theme song. By burping he makes more room for our breakfast that he smells. He even is full of the alphabet, from apple cores and dirty diapers, to moldy meatballs and year-old yams. But without this trash truck, we would live on Mount Trash-o-Rama!I really liked how this book told you a story and taught the alphabet with a theme that matched the story. When I was younger I loved watching the trash truck eat all the trash. I always wondered how it fit so much in there. But the smell was atrocious! The students can take a car, truck, tractor, house, or anything and recreate it into a clay sculpture with human-like qualities. All the children are WOWED when they see how much trash are in the trucks. We can discuss the reason it fits as much trash as it does, and why it smells the way it does.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This story is narrated by a garbage truck this makes it so this book is a good example of fantasy. This story provides good information about garbage trucks in a fun and humorous way. There are also good illustrations in this book that help move the story along.New York’s Bravest
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is an informational book about what grabage trucks do for us as people. The story follows a truck around late at night, as it is picking up all of the trash in the city. It tells of the parts of the truck and why it is such an importnatn job to have. I would use this book in lower grades, as it does a great job of implementing now vocabulary words.