The Stinky Cheese Man introduces kids to a postmodern landscape

ike most kids, I was drawn to Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man And Other Fairly Stupid Tales by its promise of gross humor. With a small man made of cheese who can’t get anyone to chase him because he smells so badly, that promise is definitely fulfilled. But the book became a childhood favorite because of how it flips classic children’s stories on their heads, avoiding the clunky morals that irritated me about fairy tales.
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