The Stinky Cheese Man (Picture Puffin)
by:
Lane Smith (author)
Jon Scieszka (author)
Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: "Chicken Licken", "The Princess and the Bowling Ball"; "The Really Ugly Duckling", and "Jack's Bean Problem". Chosen by children as the Book of the Year for the Federation of Children's Book Groups, this book was...
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Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: "Chicken Licken", "The Princess and the Bowling Ball"; "The Really Ugly Duckling", and "Jack's Bean Problem". Chosen by children as the Book of the Year for the Federation of Children's Book Groups, this book was described by "She magazine" as, 'The most delightful collection of stories a young cynic could hope to read'.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140548969 (0140548963)
Publish date: October 1st 1998
Publisher: Puffin Books
Pages no: 56
Edition language: English
A very silly and humorous book. I really liked the format of this book. It not only satirizes well-know fairy tales, it also satirizes what makes up a book. I really enjoyed how the Narrator interacted with the other characters. The stories themselves were funny, but not much of stories in and of th...
A postmodern deconstruction of fairy tales for 6 year olds. Its quite clever and well done. The stories are all deconstructed in this picturebook. The narrator is a character. The stories all merge with one another. And so on. Clever and good, and the art is very pleasing.
Genre: Humor / Remake / Fairy Tales / Magic Year Published: 1992 Year Read: 2004 Back in 1989, “The True Story of the Three Little Pigs” was the most popular children’s book ever written and that’s where the Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith team made their famous trademark as children’s book writer...
I cannot put into words how much I love this book. I remember discovering it after The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, but I come back to this book not because of the strength of its stories (let’s face it, they are humorous but little more than worth a few chuckles) but because of how meta the...
This is a book any child-regardless of age-will enjoy. I just laughed and laughed out loud. A foundation of the stories will help make this even funnier. So this can definitely skew to the older crowd. [return]Highly recommended for a quick laugh.
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