Children's book author Jason Tharp says his planned book reading at an Ohio elementary school was halted after concerns were raised about the book's possible "gay.
smell good, which is about a skunk that lives in a stinky world and his idol albert einstink is coming to the science fair and he wants to create something that s super stinky. it actually backfires and he creates something that s super smelly and in their world smell good is bad. he ends up finding out his friends don t like it but he has one friend at the end of the book that comes in and likes it. and not everybody likes what you like, sometimes it s just one person. but that confronts an idea of two 5-year-olds playing minecraft or whatever the next new game it is, a lot of times your friends will say that s a baby thing, i don t like that anymore. so it s that question of switching from little to big and how that kind of feels you can feel kind of guilty. but it really comes from a lot of questions i get from across the country talking to kids. what do you do when somebody likes something different from you? that was my attempt to do it.