The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Viking Kestrel picture books) (Viking Kestrel picture books)

by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith

Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: ‘Chicken Licken’, ‘The Princess and the Bowling Ball’; ‘The Really Ugly Duckling’, and ‘Jack's Bean Problem’.

Chosen by children as the Book of the Year for the Federation of Children’s Book Groups, the book was described by She magazine as, ‘The most delightful collection of stories a young cynic could hope to read’.

Reviewed by cherryblossommj on

3 of 5 stars

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While tonight we only read The Stinky Cheese Man as it was included in [b:The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury: Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud|238068|The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury Celebrated Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud|Janet Schulman|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320459997s/238068.jpg|230604] in all it's handful of pages glory I'm just not won over. I remember when thus first came out when I was infirst or second grade and it was and is loved for being so new and bizarre on both the artwork scale and in rethinking classic fables but it's just not my flavor. However I wouldn't turn the whole book downbut I doubt I'd seek it out for our shelves.

Update: 3/12/2015. At some point we have obtained a scholastic copy of the whole book. Tonight my three year old chose it to have read aloud. My five year old reader came in part way. Both girls are very fairy tale fluent and had skeptical facial expressions and were able to name the related classic. It was fun. We steer clear of words like stupid and dumb, but in the context the girls and I were able to enjoy it.

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