I love you, stinky face

r ,. -, -, ; , ->, rTrol1 BridgeWater Books -;;.~ : ' '71 " This edition published in 2002 Copyright © 1997 by Lisa McCourt Reprinted by permission of Troll Communications LLC All rights reserved Reprinted by permission of BridgeWater Books All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher Printed in Belgium 10 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCourt, Lisa I love you, Stinky Face I written by Lisa McCourt; p illustrated by Cyd Moore ern Summary: A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even ir her child were a stmky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien ISBN 0-8167-4392-4 [I Mother and child-Fiction Animals-Fiction.] I Moore, (yd ill II nne Pll.M13745If 1997 [E)-dc21 97-10017 '-, ") love you, my wonderful child," said Mama as she tucked me In But) had a question ( -'< ' ", , ' ' -e: ! "If you were a big, scary ape, I would comb your whole hairy self to make sure you didn't have any tangles ' " "And would make your birthday cake out of bananas, and would tell you, 'I love you, my big, scary ape.'" :1 I ! ' , J I I il I! II "And would tuck you into your newly mended sheets every night and say, 'I love you, my sweet, terrible din saur '" "Then I would dress you in colors that showed off your , A.~, Vl " "" "~ nice green skin • l and I would pack your lunch box with beetles and spiders and ants and grasshoppers and the tastiest bugs you ever had And I would pack a note with all the bugs that said, 'I love you, little greenie Bon appetit:" j I I - .f 'ani 1~alfst ohe \ li" 3i3anti~i.:r· itt th~\'tJlle of, Mj 1~al?· \.:,~ "Then would look right into your gigantic eye and say, 'I love you, my little cyclops,' and would singyou a lullaby until your one gigantic eyelid got droopier and droopier, and it flnally closed and you fell fast asleep;" f~"': I~: 'f "And I love you, t I: my wonderful child." ... information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher Printed in Belgium 10 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McCourt, Lisa I love you, Stinky Face. .. bug-eating green alien ISBN 0-8167-4392-4 [I Mother and child-Fiction Animals-Fiction.] I Moore, (yd ill II nne Pll.M13745If 1997 [E)-dc21 97-10017 '-, ") love you, my wonderful child," said Mama... and would tell you, 'I love you, my big, scary ape.'" :1 I ! ' , J I I il I! II , ' I r "Then I would you a bath and sprinkle you give with sweet-smelling powder .~ -.::- :; ': I ;~~ , ,.•