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Tekavec, Heather

What's That AWFUL Smell?

32 pp. | Dial | March, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2660-0 $$15.99

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Margaret Spengler. The farm animals assume the "awful smell" in the barn must be coming from a little piglet. Then Cat arrives and digs out the liver, onion, and tuna fish sandwich she hid in the barn a few days before. This flourish will score high on kids' gross-out meters, and that the piglet happily eats the sandwich should completely do them in. The illustrations emphasize the animals' noses to comic effect.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2004