Jenn M's Reviews > I Stink!

Rating this based on my son's love of this book! It was his favorite for about 1 year when he was 2. We read it several times a day, and I think it was one of the first books from which he began to pick out letters and short words. We lived in the country at the time, but had weekly trash service. When we heard the trash truck rumbling down our road, he would run outside or to his bedroom window (that faced the road) and wave at the driver. If my son was not in view, the driver would pause in his pickups and honk the horn, waiting for my son to show up to wave. It was a beautiful, innocent childhood ritual that my son still remembers, and I treasure...the start of awareness of routine and others in my toddler son, and the kindness of strangers to accommodate a young child's heartfelt joy.

If your youngster is at all into trucks and mechanical things, and what young children (particularly boys) are not, then you should at least read this book. Love the sound words that make the story "sound" like the real thing.

Two thumbs up and five stars from my son.