The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Jon Scieszka; Lane Smith
Scholastic (1992)
In Collection
#2777
0*
Picture books
Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology, Short Stories
Paperback 9780590476768
English
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. Our naughty narrator, Jack, makes a mockery of the title page, the table of contents, and even the endpaper by shuffling, scoffing, and generally paying no mind to structure. Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and the Giant at the top of the beanstalk snack...
Product Details
Dewey JP SCIES
No. of Pages 60
Height x Width 10.3 x 8.5  inch
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