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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, John Glore is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>Wonderfully quirky, this book breathes new life into staid children's stories. 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.</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Grade-school irreverence abounds in this compendium of (extremely brief) fractured fairy tales, which might well be subtitled ``All Things Gross and Giddy.'' With a relentless application of the sarcasm that tickled readers of The True Story of the Three Little Pigs , Scieszka and Smith skewer a host of juvenile favorites: Little Red Running Shorts beats the wolf to grandmother's house; the Really Ugly Duckling matures into a Really Ugly Duck; Cinderumpelstiltskin is ``a girl who really blew it.'' Text and art work together for maximum comic impact--varying styles and sizes of type add to the illustrations' chaos, as when Chicken Licken discovers that the Table of Contents, and not the sky, is falling. Smith's art, in fact, expands upon his previous waggery to include increased interplay between characters, and even more of his intricate detail work. The collaborators' hijinks are evident in eve

Who reads The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales?

Author

Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, John Glore

Publisher

Viking Books for Young Readers

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780590466271

Category

children's

Subjects

Children'S, Short Stories, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (79,914 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14