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Books : The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by: Jon Scieszka List Price: $17.99 Vegetarian Books Price: $12.23 You Save: $5.76 (32%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780670844876 ISBN: 067084487X Label: Viking Juvenile Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 56 Publication Date: October 01, 1992 Publisher: Viking Juvenile Reading Level: Ages 4-8 Studio: Viking Juvenile Sales Rank: 3406 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: "Parodic humor here runs riot...irrepressibly zany fun!" --Kirkus * Caldecott Honor Book * An ABBY Honor Book * Publishers Weekly Top Selling Kids Books of All Time List * ALA Notable Children's Book * New York Times Notable Book of the Year * New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, "Top of the List" * The Horn Book Fanfare * Texas Bluebonnet Award * Parenting's Reading-Magic Award Amazon.com Review: 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 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. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - FunnyI loved this book because it had such an out of the box writing style. The tales play up the silliness that is obvious when reading the original versions. My family got a good giggle from this one! The stinky cheese man is so funny. Especially for those who love cheese even though it does stink!LOL Rating:  - Irreverent and MischievousJon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales (Viking: 1992) reinvigorates classic fairy tales with warped, post-modern retellings. The madness starts when the Little Red Hen invades the endpaper, shrieking about her wheat, only to be chastised by the trickster narrator, Jack (of beanstalk fame): "Wait a minute...You can't tell your story here...The book hasn't even started yet." Then the Introduction spins the well-loved yarn of Goldilocks and the Three Elephants, ending with the disclaimer: "Quit reading. Turn the page. If you read this last sentence, it won't tell you anything." The Fairly Stupid Tales bask in their irreverence, mocking the unreality of cherished fairy tales with cheeky cleverness. ... Read More: Rating: - Surgeon's General's Warning...SURGEON'S GENERAL'S WARNING: It has been determined that these tales are fairly stupid and probably dangerous to your health. But by all means, keep reading "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith (Scholastic, 1992). While these retellings of familiar fairy tales may make Mother Goose lose all her feathers in shock, the tales are a fun dose of mockery and sarcasm. The Ugly Duckling grows up to be nothing more than ugly, the princess gets a slimy smooch instead of a handsome prince, and the sky opens on Chicken Licken to reveal nothing but the falling Table of Contents. Text and image play and weave creatively together in this Caldecott Honor book, thanks to Jack the Narrator who ... Read More: Rating: - For the child who "hates to read" (and for those who love it, too)This is a favorite among the 8-12 year old crowd. Kids who don't want to read anything else will read this. Over and over. Try a read aloud with voices. Have kids act out the parts. There is something for everyone in this hysterical book! Rating:  - Great for the immatureI guess that this is simply a book that has gone down in history infamy for the bizarre bunch of fairytales. Oh, well. I still have fond memories of laughing myself silly over the deranged mutations of otherwise classic fairy tales. I know these are silly, but oddly... they are probably best appreciated by those who are most familiar with fairy tales. |
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