I Stink! (Kate and Jim Mcmullan)

My nephew is obsessed with "trash trucks" so this book was absolutely perfect for him. Though he can't read, he can recite the whole book to me because he memorized it based on the pages and he's only 2 1/2! Kate McMullan is a great author especially for boys!

I credit this book with getting my three-year-old interested in books. Before he didn't seem to care to be read to, then I got this from the library and he would bring it to me right after breakfast every day. Soon he was saying the phrases along with me and looking at it by himself during the day. I guess I wasn't choosing subject matter that was interesting before, but tapping into his garbage man mania did the trick.

I cannot stress enough how disappointed I was in this book. Our son loves construction vehicles and we read him 4 or more books every night at bedtime. He watches the cartoon show and loves it, so we got him the set of books for Christmas. He didn't like these at ALL. The illustrations in I'm Dirty are scary!! His older sisters (teens and above) read it before reading it to their brother who is 2 and they didn't recommend reading it to him. I was like Oh come on so I then read it. Wow. He didn't like it. I returned them immediately

with his current obsession with the garbage trucks, my son is really into this book. It has excellent rhymes and it even does the alphabet! Something I didnt expect until I was turning the pages. Great read great illustrations!