Review: Welcome to Smellville (Garbage Pail Kids #1) by R.L. Stine

Goodreads Blurb

Goosebumps creator R. L. Stine teams up with the pop-culture phenomenon Garbage Pail Kids for a first-ever GPK illustrated middle-grade series
 
Welcome to the town of Smellville, where nine kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much fun as they possibly can. People may think that they’re gross and weird and strange, but they’re not bad kids—they just don’t know any better. In this hilarious new series from bestselling author R. L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids—from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janie—get into mischief at their middle school, all while battling bullies and their archenemies, Penny and Parker Perfect.

My Review: Rated 3 out of 5 stars

If you smell something terrible, I assure you the smell is truly there. I was grossed out by some of the nasty characters. These Garbage Pail Kids smell bad, live together, and look like cute Cabbage Patch dolls, but they are dirty, nasty, intelligent, and weird. The illustrations were amazing. R.L. Stine brings us a group of kids that might give the perfect neighbors nightmares for the rest of their lives. This was a fun read, with a group of kids who are all different and weird. They live together alone and attend school. They are the odd kids in Smellville. Can the Garbage Pail Kids outsmart the Perfect neighbors? I guess you will have to read the book to find out.

Author Biography

R. L. Stine is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children’s literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Fear Street series.

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