Stinky Stories
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The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.
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Stinky Stories
Sue Heap
A collection of hilarious yet sensitive stories about some of the whiffiest pongs you can imagine - all the glorious unmentionable things of childhood like John Cunliffe's giant who has BO and Roald Dahl's little girl who smells of doggy poo to a witch. There are more gentle stories, too: Philippa Pearce's greenish smelling and mysterious Jess Oakes who appears when a tree falls on the school and Gene Kemp's cat who has to travel far and wide to find Toothie, the only person who loves him. This is a super read and one of the few books I know that can surmount a wet playtime duty with effortless ease.