I Love You, Little Stinker!

You’re a little stinker, it’s true — and we can’t help but adore and love you. I Love You, Little Stinker! by Sandra Magsamen is the novelty board book that every parent of a toddler has been waiting for — a soft, plush skunk tail right on the cover, the most affectionately teasing love message in the entire Magsamen catalog, and the deeply universal truth that the most beloved little stinkers in the world are adored not despite their stinkiness but completely and helplessly because of it. With Sandra Magsamen’s signature warmth and her most playfully humorous voice, this book takes the love-you-no-matter-what message and wraps it in the most giggle-inducing, most tail-pettable, most skunk-pun-perfect package imaginable — a love story for every parent who has ever looked at their little stinker mid-tantrum, mid-mess, mid-magnificent-chaos and felt the helpless, irresistible adoration that only the most unconditional love can produce.

Book Details

• Title | I Love You, Little Stinker!
• Author | Sandra Magsamen — bestselling creator of 30+ baby and toddler books with 3 million+ copies sold worldwide
• Publisher | Scholastic
• Format | Novelty board book
• Tactile Feature | Soft, cozy plush skunk tail on the cover — as irresistibly pettable as the little stinker it celebrates
• Message | “You’re a little stinker, it’s true! And we can’t help but adore and love you!” — Sandra Magsamen’s most playfully humorous love declaration
• Tone | Affectionately teasing, warmly humorous, and completely unconditionally loving — the Magsamen title that makes parents laugh before it makes them feel all the feelings
• Theme | Unconditional love for the most lovably stinky, most magnificently chaotic, most helplessly adored little one in the room
• Age Range | Perfect for babies and toddlers — and for every parent of a toddler who has ever needed this book to exist

Why Kids (and Parents) Love It

• The soft plush skunk tail on the cover of I Love You, Little Stinker! is the tactile feature that makes this book completely irresistible from the moment it is spotted — a tail that is genuinely soft, genuinely cozy, and genuinely impossible for little hands to pass by without reaching out to pet, stroke, and claim as their own, giving this playful love story the same can’t-stop-touching-it quality that makes the best novelty board books the ones that children carry around as comfort objects as much as reading material
• The little-stinker message is the love declaration that parents have always felt but rarely seen expressed with this combination of humor and warmth — the acknowledgment that yes, this child is sometimes a stinker, and yes, we adore them completely and helplessly anyway, a message so perfectly calibrated to the reality of toddler parenting that every caregiver who reads it feels seen, validated, and immediately certain that this is the exact book they needed to give to every other parent of a toddler they know
• Sandra Magsamen’s signature love message, delivered here in its most playful and most humorous register, gives I Love You, Little Stinker! a tonal distinctiveness that sets it apart from every other Magsamen title in the collection — less earnest than You Are a Gift to Me, less exuberant than I’m Wild About You!, and more affectionately teasing than any of her other books, making this the Magsamen title for the parent who wants to say “I love you even when you’re being impossible” in the most adorable, most skunk-tailed, most helplessly adoring way imaginable

Perfect For

• Babies, toddlers, and the parents and grandparents who love them even when — especially when — they are being little stinkers — a Sandra Magsamen novelty board book with a soft plush skunk tail, a playfully teasing love message, and the most helplessly adoring unconditional love declaration in the collection, from the bestselling creator of more than 30 baby and toddler books with 3 million+ copies sold worldwide
• A perfect baby shower gift, birthday gift, holiday gift, and any-occasion essential for every family with a little stinker on their hands — and the most immediately gift-funny, most pick-it-up-and-laugh-and-then-cry title in the complete Sandra Magsamen collection alongside Peek-A-Boo I Love You, I’m Wild About You!, I Ruff You, I Love Old McDonald’s Farm, and You Are a Gift to Me
• Petting the tail, reading the message, and being completely, helplessly, unconditionally adored — stinker by skunk, plush tail by love — the most affectionately teasing, most tail-pettable, most little-stinker-perfect novelty board book in the boutique