SuitabookMonster Stink
Anna Brooke, illustrated by Owen Lindsay
- Reading
- If the reader enjoys the premise, try the opening alongside them and pause to unpack the invented phrases. Check whether the previous book is needed, then reassess after the first chapters’ treatment of danger and humour.
- Themes
- Gross-out humour: The story is promoted through pungent framing and playful invented language; the extent of its fart-based humour is unclear. The humour is clearly foregrounded, but whether the book simply plays with it, endorses it as central fun or balances it with other tones cannot be determined.
- Mystery and danger: The book addresses mystery and danger; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. These elements suggest adventurous stakes, but the book’s attitude towards danger, criminal behaviour and the monster is not shown.
- Worth knowing
- The intensity, frequency and consequences of the book’s monster, criminal and fart-related elements are unclear.