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Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales


Viking Kestrel Picture

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No. of pages 56

Published: 2002

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Great for age 3-14 years

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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 heed to structure. Characters slide in and out of tales, Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin and the Giant at the top of the beanstalk snacks on the Little Red Hen. There are no lessons to be learned or morals to take to heart--just good, sarcastic fun that smart-alecks of all ages will love.

 

This book is part of a book series called Viking Kestrel Picture .

There are 56 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2002 by Penguin Putnam Inc .

Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man . He is also the founder of guysread. com and a champion force behind guyslisten. com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn. Lane Smith is the creator of It's a Book , It's a Little Book, Grandpa Green and A Perfect Day . In 2017 he won the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal for There Is a Tribe of Kids . Lane Smith and his wife, the designer Molly Leach, live in a small town in rural Connecticut, USA.

This book is in the following series:

Viking Kestrel Picture

This book has been nominated for the following awards:

North Carolina Children's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the North Carolina Children's Book Award.

Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 3-8 category by the Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award.

Caldecott Award
This book was recognised by the Caldecott Medal. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Maine Student Book Award
This book was recognised in the Grades 4-6 category by the Maine Student Book Award.

Colorado Book Award
This book was recognised in the Picture Book category by the Colorado Book Award.

Bluebonnet Award
This book was recognised by the Bluebonnet Award.

Buckeye Children's Book Award
This book was recognised in the Grades K-2 category by the Buckeye Children's Book Award.

Book Sense Book of the Year Award
This book was recognised by the Book Sense Book of the Year Award.

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