Megan McDonald’s Stink and the Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling Smackdown is a funny, bouncy story for 7 year olds about a boy who has to find a sport, fast.<\/p>\n
Report Card Day is Stink’s favourite day of the year. He’s sure he’s got all O’s for Outstanding, and he does. Except for one big fat U. In PE!<\/p>\n
Mum and Dad decide he needs to take up a sport. Stink is short, the bat is bigger than he is, and he has no intention of being squashed flat in football. So he flicks through the sports channels instead. Ditch-snorkelling. Cheese-chasing. Wife-carrying (and Stink does NOT have a wife).<\/p>\n
Then he finds it. Thumb-wrestling! No equipment needed, and you can do it anywhere.<\/p>\n
He and his best friend Webster make masks for their thumbs. Stink’s is Shark Hammersmash, silver with pointy red teeth. Webster’s is T. Rex Wasabi. Webster wins every single match.<\/p>\n
His big sister Judy beats him too, by shouting “Yeti alert!” and pinning him while he looks. Then Sophie beats him in the middle of a maths lesson, the class gets so loud that the noise-meter siren goes off, and Stink takes a not-happy note home.<\/p>\n
So Stink tries karate instead. In his blue dressing gown, to start with. He snaps pencils, chops a cushion into a snowstorm of feathers, and knocks the head off Judy’s prized Giraffe Award. Oops.<\/p>\n
At karate class he falls on his bottom more than once. A boy called Rooster calls him Ballerina Butt. And the teacher keeps asking him to be a calm pond with no ripples, which is the opposite of how Stink feels about everything.<\/p>\n
The real joy is how much Stink wants things. He’s never half-hearted about anything! You’ll probably recognise that kid who’s sure the next new thing is going to be THE thing.<\/p>\n
There’s a lovely bit where he reads picture books to a dog in training to guide blind people. The dog runs off with the book and ends up in the returns bin.<\/p>\n
The chapters are short and full of sound effects, so it’s a great one for a newly confident reader or for reading aloud. It all comes down to one last thumb war in the back garden.<\/p>\n
This is the sixth Stink book. If your reader wants more, Stink and the Midnight Zombie Walk comes next, with Stink and Webster trying to raise the money for a brand-new zombie book before the big night at the bookshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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