Oscar and the Awful, Horrible Smell

The Book Fest 1st place award, Artistic & Technical - Book Cover- Illustrated (Spring 2025)
Mom's Choice Awards Gold Metal (2024)
Readers' Choice Silver Metal, Best Children's Book 3-7 (2023)

Everyone knows that trolls have a very sensitive sense of smell. So, when Oscar smells something new in his forest, something stinky and terrible and strange, he has to investigate. From stinky mushrooms to rotten eggs, from dead fish to sticky green sludge, join Oscar as he hunts for the source of the awful, horrible, rotten, putrid, terrible, nasty, stinky smell.

This story teaches children about personal hygiene and self-awareness in a gentle, humorous way that will delight readers of all ages.

“Children will find Oscar’s encounters with each terrible smell hilarious, while learning new words by repetition at the same time …. The illustrations are bright and cheerful, and Oscar is relatable, a chubby, pink, wide-eyed innocent who gets into trouble without meaning to. … [C]hildren will giggle with delight as Oscar encounters each new ‘horrible, rotten, putrid, terrible, nasty, stinky’ smell in his pastoral world.” – BlueInk Review

“The author successfully builds momentum and invites reader participation through an increasingly long list of odor-related adjectives ... The silliness is skillfully crafted …” -- Kirkus Reviews

“Young children love silly stories, and the funnier, dirtier, smellier, and more gruesome the better! They will love this story and fall in love with the adorable (but rather smelly) Oscar. Star rating: 5 Stars” - Readers’ Choice Book Awards 

 “A sweetly written, superbly illustrated story of Oscar, the troll, who’s determined to discover where the stinky smell is coming from. Highly recommended!” - The Wishing Shelf