By Peter Bently (author) , Laurie Stansfield (illustrator)
"Full of fun, this is the story of how Sally the Skunk overcomes universal hostility and cries of Skunk! Skedaddle!"
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A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month April 2023
Fears of the horrible smell that she might make has driven everyone away from being friends with Sally. But, on a trip to town, she shows that she only uses her deadly smell against people she doesn’t like!
When Sally turns her stink on Nobby the Job as he raids some local shops she shows everyone just how useful her special power can be. Soon everyone wants to be Sally’s friend. Laurie Stansfield’s illustrations are charming and also help to dispel negative myths about skunks!
Discover that skunks don't always stink, with Roald-Dahl Funny Prize-winning Peter Bently!
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Nobody wants to be friends with a smelly skunk, but Sally is desperate to show the townspeople that she would never let off a stink around friends. When she bumps into the town robber, it's time to show everyone how useful her stink can be!
Multi-award-winning Peter Bently teams up with Laurie Stansfield to teach us not to judge a skunk by its stink!
A raucous tale with a lesson to not judge others at its heart in an upbeat rhyming text. Children learn what it might be like to be someone who’s unwelcome in a new place.
The award-winning author of over seventy books, Peter went to ten schools as far apart as Devon, Northumberland, Germany and Hong Kong. He studied languages at university and worked as a journalist and non-fiction editor before becoming a children's author.
His titles include bestsellers Octopus Shocktopus ! (illustrated by Steven Lenton), which won the FCBG Children’s Book Award 2022 and the Teach Early Years Picture Book Prize 2020; Dogs in Disguise (illustrated by John Bond), winner of the Shropshire Picture Book Prize 2022; Cats Ahoy! (illustrated by Jim Field), which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize; and King Jack and the Dragon (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), an American Library Association Notable Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.
His bestselling The Great Dog Bottom Swap , illustrated by Mei Matsuoka, has been described as a “cult classic” and was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
When he’s not writing, Peter enjoys visiting schools, libraries and book festivals.
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Discover that skunks don't always stink, with Roald-Dahl Funny Prize-winning Peter Bently! Nobody wants to be friends with a smelly skunk, but Sally is desperate to show the townspeople that she would never let off a stink around friends.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Skunk! Skedaddle! and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Skunk! Skedaddle! features in the following genres: Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations, Funny, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Julia Eccleshare's Picks of the Month, PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Wildlife, The Natural World, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Skunk! Skedaddle! was written by Peter Bently and published by Andersen Press Ltd
Skunk! Skedaddle! has 32 pages
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