Stink: The Super-Incredible Collection

Stink #1-3

by Megan McDonald, Peter H. Reynolds (Illustrator)

What is way cooler than a story about Stink? Three of them — all tucked together in one hilarious boxed set. No lie! Judy Moody's pesky younger "bother" — encyclopedia in hand, zany schemes in mind, and comical comebacks at the ready — has totally come into his own with a compelling, kid-friendly series. Now it's easy for young readers to jump-start their Stink collection with a boxed set offering a trio of titles: STINK: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING KID, STINK AND THE INCREDIBLE SUPER-GALACTIC JAWBREAKER, and STINK AND THE WORLD'S WORST SUPER-STINKY SNEAKERS.

Genres: Childrens

247 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 9, 2008

About the author

"Sometimes I think I am Judy Moody," says Megan McDonald, author of the Judy Moody series, the Stink series, and THE SISTERS CLUB. "I'm certainly moody, like she is. Judy has a strong voice and always speaks up for herself. I like that."

For Megan McDonald, being able to speak up for herself wasn't always easy. She grew up as the youngest of five sisters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, an ironworker, was known to his coworkers as "Little Johnny the Storyteller." Every evening at dinner the McDonalds would gather to talk and tell stories, but Megan McDonald was barely able to get a word in edgewise. "I'm told I began to stutter," she says, leading her mother to give her a notebook so she could start "writing things down."


Critically acclaimed, the Judy Moody books have won numerous awards, ranging from a PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Best Book of the Year to an International Reading Association Children's Choice. "Judy has taken on a life of her own," the author notes, with nearly 3 million Judy Moody books in print. Interestingly, the feisty third-grader is highly popular with boys and girls, making for a strong base of fans who are among Megan McDonald's strongest incentives to keep writing, along with "too many ideas and a little chocolate." And now -- by popular demand -- Judy Moody's little brother, Stink, gets his chance to star in his own adventures! Beginning with STINK: THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING KID, three more stories, and his own encyclopedia, STINK-O-PEDIA, Stink's special style comes through loud and strong -- enhanced by a series of comic strips, drawn by Stink himself, which are sprinkled throughout the first book. About the need for a book all about Stink, Megan McDonald says, "Once, while I was visiting a class full of Judy Moody readers, the kids, many with spiked hair à la Judy's little brother, chanted, 'Stink! Stink! Stink! Stink! Stink!' as I entered the room. In that moment, I knew that Stink had to have a book all his own."


More recently, Megan McDonald has recalled some of her own childhood with the warmth, humor -- and squabbles -- of three spunky sisters in THE SISTERS CLUB.


Megan McDonald and her husband live in Sebastopol, California, with two dogs, two adopted horses, and fifteen wild turkeys that like to hang out on their back porch.

Reviews

[Jane Maple · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like the character of Stink. I think the writing is well done and would be a fun book for kids, but the two start deduction is due to one event in the first book "The Incredible Shrinking Kid" that I want to warn parents about - spoiler alert - Stink is asked to take care of the class pet (a newt). Judy (his sister) insists on helping but ends up mistakenly putting the newt down the kitchen sink drain and then mistakenly turns on the garbage disposal looking for the light!!! I can not imagine giving this book to any child I love with this scene in the book. They do try to make light of it later - saying that probably the newt got down the drain before Judy turned on the disposal and Stink himself while he reacts strongly to at the moment seems to get over this event during the timeline of the book. But I just think it is horrible and don't know why they needed this scene in this book. Otherwise I felt like the series and the other two books in the collection were pretty good, but someone should have edited out this scene or at least made it less horrific.

[Seikaiha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, I was Moody-hungry enough to start reading Stink Moody series at that point. I had read all the Judy books and "Judy and Stink" books. Even though I'm an adult. :P

[Pooh]

AWESOME

[ceecee · Rating 4 out of 5]

My son can't put these books down. I recommend this series for anyone who has a child who finds reading difficult or even finds it hard to find topics that boys would love. I am so happy to have finally found a series that my son loves that I'm sad to see Megan McDonald only wrote 10 books. I hope that when these books end my son continues his love of books.