Stink Soup by Jill Esbaum and Roger Roth

Stink Soup is an illustrated children’s book written by Jill Esbaum, with pictures by Roger Roth. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2004.

Annabelle and her little brother, Willie, are spending the week at Granny’s. Annabelle is supposed to keep her brother out of trouble, which isn’t easy when she’s there to help Granny prepare tomatoes for home canning. Annabelle can’t decide which is worse: chasing after Willie or working with tomatoes. Even the smell of tomatoes makes her gag.

Willie escapes his sister’s surveillance to lasso chickens, pitch eggs, and torment the goat. Finally he goes too far, tangling with a skunk. But his devilishness just might save Annabelle from having to taste Granny’s tomato juice. Or will it?

The title on the cover is set in a version of Quaint Roman, originally designed by Gustave F. Schroeder in the early 1890s, with added shadow effect. Judging from the placement of kinks in the curves, it appears to be the digitization made by Richard William Mueller in 1993. The names of the authors and the initials inside the book are from Fancy Extended, which originated at English wood type manufacturer DeLittle. Again, a closer look at the details helps to pinpoint the version: with the smaller i dot, this is the digitization by Panache (and not Dan X. Solo’s Penzance). The text typeface is Adrian Frutiger’s Versailles.