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Illustrated by
Jim McMullan.
This companion to I Stink! makes fine use of its predecessor's formula to introduce a scrappy, hard-working tugboat with attitude. Once again, the motorized protagonist talks directly to readers, with text that flows loosely across the page and fluctuates in size. In the robust, blocky illustrations, our boy sports a near-perpetual eager grin and a youthful red baseball cap (perhaps a nod to an obvious ancestor, Little Toot).