- Fairy tales, Short stories, Children's stories, American, Children's fiction
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is the ultimate in fractured fairy tales. Not only do the characters create their own stories, they also design the structure of the book itself.
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Comic, ironic, warm and cool.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, John Glore
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 52
- Publisher
- Playscripts, Incorporated, Dutton Books, Scholastic Inc
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9789577450210
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“Once upon a time Chicken Licken was standing around when a piece of something fell on her head.”
Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest of six sons born to Shirly Scieszka, a Registered Nurse, and Louis Scieszka, an elementary school principal. He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana and graduated in three years. He then studied both English and science at Albion College, and in 1976 he received a B.A. in writing. He went on to Columbia University's writing program, and in 1980 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree. After graduating, Scieszka held several jobs, including teaching elementary school, writing for magazines, painting apartments, working as a carpenter, and being a lifeguard. In 1989, he published his first book, [The True Story of the Three Li
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