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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Once upon a time Chicken Licken was standing around when a piece of something fell on her head. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Run run as fast as you can...,
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This review is from: The Stinky Cheese Man 10th Anniversary (Hardcover)
Making use of every bookflap, endpaper, table of contents, flyleaf, and ISBN box, Jon Scieszka (go on...pronounce it) and Lane Smith teamed up to bring us the picture book that gives kids a lot more credit than most. Many adults will sit their little ones down with the same boring fairy tales with the same boring fairy tale lessons. Kids like fairy tales, no question, but kids also love the subversive. So if you hand them a book like, "The Stinky Cheese Man", that undermines everything fairy tales stand for, the children will fall on their knees in praise.The book is a madcap collection of dismembered tales and stories. Didn't much care for the ending of the original "Ugly Duckling"? Well here's your chance to see the real (and realistic) finale to the tale. Think "Little Red Riding Hood" could be pepped up a bit by calling it, "Little Red Running Shorts"? Go wild. Scieszka is one of those rare authors that know exactly how to get little kids in stitches without resorting to the usual scatological humor and innuendo. This book is one wild ride. Characters frequently break through the fourth wall to confront the reader directly. There's a mixing and melding to the book, sometimes ending with the untimely demise of boring or annoying characters. I think it is safe to say that prior to reading this story, I had never had the pleasure of watching Foxy Loxy get pummeled by a book's Table of Contents. So thank you, Mr. Scieszka. But thanking Scieszka without tipping one's hat to Lane Smith is like feeding bananas to buffalos. It just doesn't make sense. Smith is every bit up to the task of matching Scieszka feather to feather and foul to foul on this intrepid fairy tale adventure. Characters appearing in this book look like nothing so much as a nightmare of texts, fabrics, and shapes. Lane has always reminded me of graphic novelist Dave McKean (of "The Wolves in the Walls" fame), but with a few more childlike sensibilities. These pictures are meant to disturb, but not scare. Rather than finding Lane's grotesqueries fierce, children are endlessly amused by them. And to be frank, so am I. They're great. This book, is great. And the experience of reading it is nothing but a fan-freakin'-tastic experience.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Young or Old, You will adore this book,
By Tax Lawyer (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stinky Cheese Man 10th Anniversary (Hardcover)
Sadly, this book found its way into my hands at the not-so-young age of 16. I laughed aloud, and have since read it or provided a copy of it to all children near and dear to me. I recommend it to anyone who is a parent, a babysitter, or has a sense of humor that can be engaged by the whimsical.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Fun Book to Share,
By Erin O. (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stinky Cheese Man: And Other Fairly Stupid Tales (Hardcover)
From cover to cover one never knows what to expect. Pages are upside down and Jack the narrator seems to cause just as much trouble. The stories in the book poke fun at all of the traditional fairy tales we thought we thought we knew by heart. Everything from the way the text is laid out to the illustration screams craziness and havoc. This is a book for an adult to share with a child (it's a little much for a child without adult guidance- that is why it doesn't get more stars). A fun book for all!
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