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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
The author of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs provides a riotous romp through fairy-tale-land that will have readers clutching their sides happily ever after. Full-color oil paintings.
Hardcover, 51 pages
Published
October 1st 1992
by Viking Books
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They keep making postmodernism accessible to younger and younger age groups. This is a typical postmodern take on the fairy-story genre - they even present Jack the Giant-Killer as an infinite regress of meta-stories - but it's done skillfully enough that I've met bright 6-year-olds who found it funny and got the point.
Given the inexorable forward march of literary technology, I think that we should have postmodernism for infants available not later than 2035. I can already see a kn...more
Given the inexorable forward march of literary technology, I think that we should have postmodernism for infants available not later than 2035. I can already see a kn...more
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A delightful book that makes me laugh whenever I read it. Everybody should have at least one copy of this book in their home.
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Picture Book "If geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales retells--and wreaks havoc on--the allegories we all thought we knew by heart. In these irreverent variations on well-known themes, the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, and the princess who kisses the frog wins only a mouthful of amphibian slime. The Stinky Cheese Man deconstructs not only the tradition of the fairy tale but also the entire notion of a book....more
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka is a witty collection of "fairly stupid tales" narrated by a little man by the name of Jack. Jack will play a part throughout the book, and his ending is quite hilarious. There are 10 complete stories that leave the reader laughing at the end of each one. The size of text and page usage changes with each story, and this factor only adds to the books funny moments. One story, called Chicken Licken shares a resemblance t...more
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith is very unique. They took classic fairytales such as The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Gingerbread Man and put an unusual twist to each story.
The Stinky Cheese Man used to be one of my favorite books when I was very young. However, after reading this book as an adult I have no idea why I used to like it. I hated it after reading it again. I thought it was very confusing in some...more
The Stinky Cheese Man used to be one of my favorite books when I was very young. However, after reading this book as an adult I have no idea why I used to like it. I hated it after reading it again. I thought it was very confusing in some...more
I dont know maybe its me but I didnt really care for this book. The author really captured my attention on the first page when the dedication was written upside down and the narrator made jokes about the introduction. The introduction page was so humorous. In the middle of the page the narrator suggest that you stop reading the page and proceed to the stories. It made me want to read on. The author wrote this story in such a joking matter. He made humor out of chicken little calling him ch...more
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales pokes fun at all of the fairy tales we've grown up knowing. Jon Scieska has created tales such as The Really Ugly Duckling, Cinderupelstiltskin, and Little Red Running Shorts just to name a few. Jack (from Jack and the Beanstalk) is the narrator throughout the book and shows up in most of the stories and a few of the illustrations. Lane Smith provides the painted illustrations that are truly silly enough to match the story. The two obviously ha...more
I cannot believe this is the first time I have ever read this book. It is a hilarious and fun romp through a postmodern vision of well-known fairy tales that have gone haywire at the hands of an incompetent narrator—Jack, from Jack and the Beanstalk. Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith have broken every rule of traditional narrative with this inventive story within a story within a story… There are multiple narrators, parodied texts, typographic experimentation, and other metafictive devices used throug...more
First, I read the article by Sylvia Pantaleo Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man: A Tossed Salad of Parodic Re-vision, then I read the book. I do not think I would have changed my opinion of the book if I had read the book first. Mr. Scieszka presents a satirical and disjointed rewrite of famous tales such as: Chicken Little, The Ugly Duckling, The Tortoise and The Hare, Cinderella, Little Red Hen, and others. He changes elements such as title page, end pages, Jacket information, fonts, and ev...more
So far since we've started reading multiple books a week for RDG334, this is the one that i've disliked the most. I had heard from all different types of people that it was a book of fairy tales that were told in a different point of view, but I had never read the book myself. Once I picked it up and looked at the cover it seemed as though it might be somewhat humorous, but as I flipped through the pages I did not think that it was.
I do not think that I would exactly recommend this boo...more
I do not think that I would exactly recommend this boo...more
1.Traditional Literature
2.Jack, the narrator, completely turns our favorite fairy tales and stories upside down as unrelenting sarcasm seeps from every word in every story. The characters are mingled together, one story may get mixed with another, and characters who never before met are now all part of one hilarious book! Jack even shows his disregard for literature by giving no respect to the order of reference pages within a book, and the addition of publisher information.
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2.Jack, the narrator, completely turns our favorite fairy tales and stories upside down as unrelenting sarcasm seeps from every word in every story. The characters are mingled together, one story may get mixed with another, and characters who never before met are now all part of one hilarious book! Jack even shows his disregard for literature by giving no respect to the order of reference pages within a book, and the addition of publisher information.
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The Stinky Cheese Man is a collection of many famous fairy tales that have been.... slightly altered. These new versions are light, silly and even lean a tad towards the ridiculous. For instance, The Princess and the Pea is changed to a bowling ball and it is a test for a young princess to pass. This deviation from the original is not so far that it is not recognizable yet, this change brings a new way to examine the original. I think the book is questioning the moral value, if any, - or if ...more
When I read this book I can't help but think that this compilation of fairytale spoofs was actually made for adults. It is like those scenes in animation films where the adults are laughing at the jokes rather than the children. This book is a playful mockery of all those simplistic fairy tales we used to enjoy as naive children. The Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Bean Stalk, Chicken Little, Little Red Riding Hood, etc... My favorite aspect of this book is not the fun it pokes at our childhood fa...more
I took a short break away from "The Pillars of the Earth" to read this book, which came in the mail yesterday (along with several others). I had been getting restless over "Pillars" (I couldn't continue reading and reading 'til the end because, of course, I have a job) and decided to "stray" for a while. And why not, this book is a mere 5-minute read (maybe 10, if you're one to dawdle over the illustrations) and I was done with it in no time.
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This was one of my favorite books as a child and I read this over and over again. After reading Math Curse recently, I saw the author was Jon Scieszka and had to pull out this old copy and read it one more time.
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales are parodies of all the fairy tales we've known as children. Scieszka created tales such as Little Red Running Shorts, Cinderupelstiltskin, The Really Ugly Duckling and several more. Jack, the character from Jack and the Beans...more
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales are parodies of all the fairy tales we've known as children. Scieszka created tales such as Little Red Running Shorts, Cinderupelstiltskin, The Really Ugly Duckling and several more. Jack, the character from Jack and the Beans...more
Jon Scieszka has produced yet another unique twist on several well known traditional tales. In this cazy story, the author has combined many traditional tales such as The Gingerbread Man, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Little Red Hen, and Little Red Riding Hood just to name a few. Throughout the book, the author entwines all the different stories in an ingenious way.
This book would be appropriate for older children who have a strong background in the telling or reading of a variety of ...more
This book would be appropriate for older children who have a strong background in the telling or reading of a variety of ...more
Jon Scieszka puts a humorous (and somewhat disgusting) spin on popular fairy tales in "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales." The narrator, Jack, from "Jack and the Beanstalk," brings fairy tale characters to life through witty dialogue and fractured stories. With stories such as, "Little Red Running Shorts," and "The Princess and the Bowling Ball," readers must read closely to catch the hilarious twists, crafted by Scieszka.
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Join Jack The Narrator (you'd remember him from the infamous Jack and the Beanstalk) as he moves from page to page wrecking havoc as he retells your favorite childhood fairy tales making them into fairly stupid tales. What could be more ridiculous than a princess who sleeps on bowling balls, Chicken Licken, who is convinced the table of contents falling, a really, REALLY, ugly duck, a giant, and don't forget our star of the hour Mr. Stinky Cheese himself? This book capit...more
Join Jack The Narrator (you'd remember him from the infamous Jack and the Beanstalk) as he moves from page to page wrecking havoc as he retells your favorite childhood fairy tales making them into fairly stupid tales. What could be more ridiculous than a princess who sleeps on bowling balls, Chicken Licken, who is convinced the table of contents falling, a really, REALLY, ugly duck, a giant, and don't forget our star of the hour Mr. Stinky Cheese himself? This book capit...more
For my picture book for older readers, I choose to read The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Fairy Tales. I remember reading this in library class when I was yougner, and I have to admit I enjoyed it a bit more then, than I did this time around.
Jon Scieszka puts a humorous, and pretty odd spin on some of the most popular fairy tails of all time. Throughout this entire book, Jack from Jack and the Bean stock is the narriator, who pops himself into almost every fairytail in some way or an...more
Jon Scieszka puts a humorous, and pretty odd spin on some of the most popular fairy tails of all time. Throughout this entire book, Jack from Jack and the Bean stock is the narriator, who pops himself into almost every fairytail in some way or an...more
Jon Scieska The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales; illus. by Lane Smith
Unpaged Penguin 1992 ISBN: 0-670-84487-X $16.00
(Intermediate) 4 Stars
Fairy tales are not just for little children anymore! In fact if you did not read all of those basic fairy tales such as “Chicken Little” and “Little Red Riding Hood” as a child, you will now need to regress and go read them so that you can truly appreciate this convoluted, re-telling of those tales.
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Unpaged Penguin 1992 ISBN: 0-670-84487-X $16.00
(Intermediate) 4 Stars
Fairy tales are not just for little children anymore! In fact if you did not read all of those basic fairy tales such as “Chicken Little” and “Little Red Riding Hood” as a child, you will now need to regress and go read them so that you can truly appreciate this convoluted, re-telling of those tales.
The car...more
The Stinky Cheese Man is a book of traditional fairy tales told in a not so traditional way. Many folktales are represented in this book, but one of my favorites is the spin-off of Rumpelstiltskin. Jon Sciezka molds Cinderella and Rumpelstiltskin into one story. Rumpelstiltskin offers to spin straw into gold for Cinderella but she did not see how this would do her any good. So Rumpelstiltskin asks her to guess his name. Again, she has no interest and kicks him out. Later that evening she t...more
Summary:
If geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales retells--and wreaks havoc on--the allegories we all thought we knew by heart. In these irreverent variations on well-known themes, the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, and the princess who kisses the frog wins only a mouthful of amphibian slime. The Stinky Cheese Man deconstructs not only the tradition of the fairy tale but also the entire notion of a book...more
If geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales retells--and wreaks havoc on--the allegories we all thought we knew by heart. In these irreverent variations on well-known themes, the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, and the princess who kisses the frog wins only a mouthful of amphibian slime. The Stinky Cheese Man deconstructs not only the tradition of the fairy tale but also the entire notion of a book...more
This Caldecott Honor Book by Jon Scieszka (author) and Lane Smith (illustrator) not only parodies traditional fairy tales, but does so with an unconventional artistic style. Following the success of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Scieszka and Smith present a compilation of brief, humorous retellings of classic stories. Thus, Chicken Little becomes Chicken Licken, The Princess and the Pea becomes the Princess and the Bowling Ball, and the Gingerbread Man becomes the titular Stinky Che...more
I won't say this book changed my life, but it buried itself deep in my heart and memory. This despite the fact that I didn't encounter it until my 30s. It's best read aloud, and with a dramatic flair. I'll never forget reading it once to two of my very best friends of my whole life, and we all three were in positive epileptic seizures of laughter before the end. That was the same weekend we nearly got arrested for playing in the I.M.Pei-designed fountain at the medical center and then again ...more
Jon Scieszka's "The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly stupid tales", in typical Scieszka-fashion, is another self-aware children's book written to parody fairy tales and illustrated to intensify the humor. Scieszka adds a new spin to classic fairytales, producing such remixes as "The Princess and Bowling Ball", "The Really Ugly Ducking and "Cinderumpelstiltskin, or The Girl Who Really Blew It". The cover story is featured at the very end and spins the tale of...more
The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly tupid Tales is an odd compilation of classic fairy tales with a bizarre twist. The book is unique in every way you look at it. The story starts on the endpages and contains many scenes of interruptive dialogue that disrupt the telling of each individual story. the artwork is beyond bizarre and a bit distrubing at times. Each two page spread generally contains a new story and as the book jacket advertises, it contains ten complete stories and twenty-five lav...more
Amazon.com says of author, Jon Scieszka's and illustrator's, Lane Smith's 1993 Caldecott Honor Book, 'The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Tales,' "If geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers...In these irreverent variations on well-known themes, the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, and the princess who kisses the frog wins only a mouthful of amphibian slime...Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and the Giant at the top ...more
Genre: Picturebook
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Age Group: Nursery - Primary - Adolescent
Summary: This book pokes fun at several classic Nursery Rhymes in an outrageous fashion. Both the text and the illustrations are humorous and over-the-top. Readers will get a sense from the title page, aptly titled "Title Page" that this author has a very literal sense of humor.
Evaluation: I gave this book four out of five stars because it was highly entertaining and visually stimulati...more
Awards:
Age Group: Nursery - Primary - Adolescent
Summary: This book pokes fun at several classic Nursery Rhymes in an outrageous fashion. Both the text and the illustrations are humorous and over-the-top. Readers will get a sense from the title page, aptly titled "Title Page" that this author has a very literal sense of humor.
Evaluation: I gave this book four out of five stars because it was highly entertaining and visually stimulati...more
Summary: This compilation of twisted versions of fairy tales is sure to bring pages of belly laughs. Tales include titles such as "Little Red Running Shorts", "The Princess and the Broken Bowling Ball", and "The Really Ugly Duckling". Characters of the book are not content to stick with the original fairy tale, nor are they content to stay on their own pages. The illustrations are curious and strange, fitting perfectly with the twisted theme.
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Jon Scieszka is a writer and teacher. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children. Occasionally he has been known to howl at the full moon. --from the dust jacket of "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs"
Jon Scieszka is also the author of the best-selling ALA Notable Book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as well as Knights of the Kitchen Table, a...more
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Jon Scieszka is also the author of the best-selling ALA Notable Book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as well as Knights of the Kitchen Table, a...more
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