Awards

• Winner of Bluebonnet Awards 1995
• Winner of Buckeye Children's Book Award (Grades K-2) 1995
• Winner of Caldecott Honor Book.
• Winner of Children's Book Award.
• Winner of New York Times Best Illustrated Book.
• Winner of North Carolina Children's Book Award (Picture Book) 1994
• Winner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 3-8) 1994

Overview

A Caledecott Honor Book A New York Times Best Illustrated Book This award-winning picture book is a wild, irreverent collection of reimagined fairy tales from the author and illustrator of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. Makes for an extremely fun and funny read-aloud for the whole family. A long time ago, people used to tell magical stories of wonder and enchantment. Those stories were called Fairy Tales. Those stories are not in this book. The stories in this book are Fairly Stupid Tales. In this fourth wall-breaking picture book, young readers will delight in the strange twists on familiar tales. From ""The Stinky Cheese Man"" to ""Cinderummpelstiltskin"" these unique, hilarious retellingspoke fun at classic stories and characters. The wonderfully offbeat and bizarre illustrations, as well as innovative play with typography and book design, make for a one-of-kind masterpiece from two powerhouse children's book creators. Story List- Chicken Licken The Princess and the Bowling Ball The Really Ugly Duckling The Other Frog Prince Little Red Running Shorts Jack's Bean Problem (including Giant Story / Jack's Story) Cinderummpelstiltskin (Or The Girl Who Really Blew It) The Tortoise and the Hair The Stinky Cheese Man

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9780670844876

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Reviews

* A 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 * School Library Journal Best Books of the Year * Booklist Editor's Choice The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. --Horn Book Irrepressibly zany and fun. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

From the front jacket copy ( ...56 action-packed pages, 75% more than those old 32-page 'Brand-X' books ) to the Little Red Hen's hack-cover diatribe ( Who is this ISBN guy? ), the parodic humor here runs riot. The insistent Hen is already squawking her tale at Jack - officious narrator, MC, and sometime participant - before a page labeled Title Page in 192 point type; the dedication is upside down, Jack's introduction carries a Surgeon General's warning, and the table of contents turns up late - after a story in which it plays an unprecedented role, then gets a jolt that knocks one tale off the page and, apparently, right out of the book. The brief, colloquially told, thoroughly revised tales are in the same comic spirit: no one wants to eat the Stinky Cheese Man, unlike the Gingerbread Boy; a lovestruck prince puts a bowling bah under his princess's 100 mattresses; and much, much morel AH of this is fairly amusing, but what's most unusual is the innovative play with typography (a repetitive story gets smaller and smaller like an eye test, and words and letters are distorted in various other ways) and Smith's wondrously bizarre and expressive art ( The illustrations are rendered in oil and vinegar, states the colophon). Irrepressibly zany fun. (Kirkus Reviews)

Author Information

Multiple award-winning author Jon Scieszka grew up in Flint, Michigan, the second oldest and the nicest of six boys. Jon went to school at Culver Military Academy in Indiana where he was a Lieutenant; Albion College in Michigan where he studied to be a doctor; and Columbia University in New York, where he received an M.F.A. in fiction. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years in a variety of positions. He is the author of many books for children including theNew York TimesBest Illustrated BookThe Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales(illustrated by Lane Smith), the Caldecott Honor bookThe True Story of the Three Little Pigs(illustrated by Lane Smith), andMath Curse(illustrated by Lane Smith). In addition to his work as an author, Jon also runs a web-based literacy program called ""Guys Read"" that is designed to encourage boys, particularly reluctant readers, to get involved with books. In 2008, Jon was named the country's first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a joint effort of the Library of Congress and the Children's Book Council. During his two-year role as Ambassador, he acted as a spokesperson for children's literature, speaking to groups of parents, teachers, and children to encourage the importance of reading. You can visit Jon online at www.jsworldwide.com.

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