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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
written by Jon Scieszka
Studio : Viking Juvenile
by Viking Juvenile
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
Released : 1992-10-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780670844876
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 154 reviews)
List Price : $17.99
Our Price : $4.45
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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
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Americancivilwar.com Review |
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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 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. |
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Classically Funny |
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Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith do an excellent job of putting together a parody fo the classic tales of Chicken Little, Little Red Riding Hood and others in "The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales" (Viking, 1992). This hilariously funny book begins from the front end pages with the Little Red Hen, shouting and Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk, as the narrator trying to get her off the end page, so he can begin the story. The reader will enjoy seeing a falling table of cntents and a disgusted Red Running Shorts and Wolf. Scieszka's practical retelling of these tales along with Smith's lively, but eerie illustrations will have the reader completely involved in the story, eager to hear the next wacky tale. |
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Funny |
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I 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 |
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Irreverent and Mischievous |
Jon 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. Scieszka dares to disbelieve, reimagining the Frog Prince as a simpler and perhaps more likely story (granting the talking frog bit) in which the frog tricked the princess into kissing him, and then "jumped back into the pond and the princess wiped the frog slime off her lips." Scieszka indulges in a child's honesty, conjuring a Really Ugly Duckling, who "grew up to be just a really ugly duck. The End." And he delights in conflating, sampling, stealing, and [...] fairy tales at every turn. The Giant's story, comprising lines torn from assorted fairy tales and pasted pell-mell together, manages in nine lines to allude to Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, the Fisherman's Wife, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, and the Wizard of Oz, while beginning with "The End," ending with "Once upon a time," and cramming "Happily ever after" merrily in the middle.
Lane Smith's "oil and vinegar" illustrations, part Dalí, part Ralph Steadman, garnered a well-deserved Caldecott Honor in 1993. Smith's artwork interprets and amplifies Scieszka's zany, mischievous sentiment with great verve, not to mention nerve. Grotesque creatures with elongated beaks crammed with tiny teeth, bizarre but somehow more comical than frightening, perfect the book's surreal, mish-mash vibe. |
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Surgeon's General's Warning... |
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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 puts pages upside down, mixes large and small fonts, and slips characters in and out of stories. While some readers may ask like the Hen does on the back cover "Who will buy this book anyway? Over fifty pages of nonsense... blah, blah, blah," those with a sense of humor will forgo the lack of classic literature quality and instead embrace it as it is: an entertaining piece of fairly stupid tales. |
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For the child who "hates to read" (and for those who love it, too) |
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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! |
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