Fart's favourite smells by Zoe Foster Blake

Zoe Foster Blake’s creation, Fart, is exploring the wider world in this lift the flap book about all the different smells he encounters.

He first finds some garbage bins in the garden complete with a pigeon and a rat eating their fill. Opening the flap reveals some of the things you might expect to see in a garage bin. Smelly things! Over the page he spies people queued to buy an ice cream while something behind them is baking in the sun. Something very smelly!

He floats into a cafe where he rejects the pizza in the oven and spies his favourite, wonderful anchovies. Lovely and smelly!

On he goes to the house where two children are sitting on the sofa. Fart can smell their shoes and socks, as well as the popcorn they are eating. More delightful smells!

When Fart arrives at the rubbish dump, he is thrilled as it contains all the best smells in the world. Bliss!

This sturdy lift the flap book will get lots of use as younger readers will love talking about smells. They will easily recognise the smells depicted on each page, adding their own worst and favourite smells to the discussion. And of course with Fart as the main character in the book, lots of stories about smelly farts can be expected. So be prepared.

Themes: Smells, Rubbish, Farts, Humour, Lift the flap.

Fran Knight