** "The Great Stink is a surprisingly sweet traipse through history....The smelly subject of London's poop pollution receives the royal treatment in a whimsical debut children's picture book."-- Shelf Awareness for Readers, starred review

** "This informative exploration of London's sanitation history will delight nonfiction fans interested in history, ecology, biography, and more."-- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Paeff celebrates this engineering feat with a lively but orderly overview of the history of sanitation misinformation, including that coming from Bazalgette himself, and Carpenter has a field day illustrating a comical confrontation between Londoners and royalty and their offensive river."-- BCCB