Stinky Stanley

Stinky Stanley #1

by Ann Hodgman, John Emil Cymerman (Illustrator)

He's a blob of protoplasm who eats his own ear wax. Catches flies with his tongue, burps like a horse and smells like a toxic waste dump. He's Stinky Stanley! Born when lighting hit a loaded garbage can, Stinky Stanley is Sam Moore's (almost) identical twin. Sam and his friend Marjorie manage to keep Stanley a secret - until he breaks out of the basement, trashes the school and makes Sam a hero to the kids who once called him 'nerd.'

128 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Ann Hodgman (born 1956) is an American author of more than forty children's books as well as several cookbooks and humor books and many magazine articles.

Ann was raised in Rochester, New York and graduated from Harvard College, where she was a staff member on the Harvard Lampoon and the Harvard Advocate. She was the food columnist for the magazines Spy and Eating Well. Her essay "No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch," about taste-testing various dog foods, was included in "Best American Essays." Hodgman is also known for her three cookbooks, Beat This!, Beat That! and One Bite Won't Kill You. She is the author of the 6-book vampire series My Babysitter is a Vampire and the nonfiction memoir "The House of a Million Pets."

Hodgman is married to author David Owen, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and they have two children, Laura and John.