Eek, You Reek!

Poems about Animals That Stink, Stank, Stunk

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Eek, you reek,
You make a funk.
Where you have been
Things stink, stank, stunk.

You’ve left a path,
A swath of smell,
And—yuck!
You did it very well.


Warning: this book reeks! It’s rotten, rancid, foul, and funky.

Within these pages, you’ll find stinkbugs, weasels, Tasmanian devils, and a particularly pungent musk ox. Fourteen foul poems from Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple introduce this repugnant selection of animals, and magnificently malodorous illustrations from Eugenia Nobati showcase them in all their noxious glory.

Ready to find out more? Plug your nose and read on . . .

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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Picture Books, Science
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Expository Literature, Animals
Copyright 2019
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Millbrook Press ™
Language English
Number of Pages 32
Publication Date 2019-10-01
Text Type Poetry
BISACS JNF003000, JNF051150, JNF042010
Dewey 591.47
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Dimensions 9.75 x 9.75
Features Awards, Glossary, Reviewed, Starred Reviews, and Table of contents

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Awards

  • 2020-2021 Mockingbird Reading Program List, Winner, 2020
  • Massachusetts Book Awards, Long-listed, 2020
  • Kirkus Best Children's Books, Winner, 2019

Reviews

School Library Journal

“Both educational and hilarious, this fun book of poetry written by Yolen and Stemple will not only please language arts teachers but will appease science teachers.”—School Library Journal

Kirkus Reviews

“[T]he foolish foulness may just hook those who think poetry stinks. Rancid rhymes and syncopated stank and plenty of eeeew just for you.”—starred, Kirkus Reviews