The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid TalesIf geese had graves, Mother Goose would be rolling in hers. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales retells - and wreaks havoc on - the allegories we all thought we knew by heart. 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. The Stinky Cheese Man deconstructs not only the tradition of the fairy tale but also the entire notion of a book. Our naughty narrator, Jack, makes a mockery of the title page, the table of contents, and even the endpaper by shuffling, scoffing, and generally paying no mind to structure. Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and the Giant at the top of the beanstalk snack... |
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beautiful princess began his story BETTER STORY bowling ball BREAD ANYWAY chase the Stinky Cheese Man hopped Cheese Man ran Chicken Licken Cinderella clean CINDERUMPELSTILTSKIN clean the house cleared his throat clucked Cocky Locky Ducky Lucky Elephant's chair Fairly Stupid forgot the Table Foxy Loxy frog Giant laughed Giant squeezed Jack girl Goosey Loosey granny's house grew his hair GRIND YOUR BONES He'll kill help me plant hundred mattresses Jack cleared Jack the Narrator Jack thought kill KITI W 11 laughed an ugly lazy cat lazy mouse little old lady Little Red Running Once plant the wheat pond Prince Rabbit grew Red Hen Red Running Shorts RUMPELSTILTSKIN run as fast Run run run sad and pathetic sky is falling smell stepmother and stepsisters Stinky Cheese STORY IS FINISHED Stupid Tale Table of Contents tell the President There's Tortoise ran ugly duckling ugly laugh Wait a minute יו