Jon scieszka the stinky cheese man5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() it'll be a great investigation of what a book is," says Scieszka. It was a hit.įor their second book, Scieszka decided to take a bunch of other fairy tales and completely deconstruct them. Their first book together was The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - a take on the classic The Three Little Pigs, but narrated by the wolf. ![]() Illustrations © Lane Smith The Stinky Cheese Man "He was bringing this wealth of experience from the art world, just bringing pure art. "I was bringing all my favorite literary devices and books that I loved - metafiction - stuff like Tristram Shandy," says Scieszka. When Scieszka and Smith met, they connected over a shared love of high culture, art and literature, but also pop culture. He read them George and Martha, and Frog and Toad - anything other than the leveled readers. The second graders were completely taken with Franz Kafka. "Like, 'Hey, have you ever heard this story about a guy who woke up one morning and he was a bug?'" So he started testing out other material. Scieszka, why are we even reading this?' " ![]() By that point, Scieszka had earned his master's degree in fiction writing, done some apartment painting ("Because that's about what you can do with an MFA."), gotten a lot of rejections for book manuscripts, and had turned to teaching elementary school, where he was exposed to some truly terrible leveled reading material for children. ![]()
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