The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

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Postmodernism: It, along with The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (also by Scieszka and Smith), were arguably two of the first postmodernist picture books.

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Crying Wolf: In "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty", everyone gets fed up with the boy's cow patty pranks, so when he inevitably falls into a pile of cow patty, he cried fire instead to attract firemen to rescue him, knowing full well no one would take his cries of cow patty seriously anymore. 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. Gwen: (Smiling) Yes. I just felt like saying it. And sometimes you ask me things that you don't know. And sometimes you ask me things that you do know. ...Like you ask me what grade I'm in. I was just saying it and making sure. In the special 10th anniversary edition, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" is about a boy who cried "Cow Patty" every time someone did something. One day, he took a shortcut behind Mr. Smith's barn and he jumped over the fence without looking. Not knowing Mr. Smith just shoveled out the cow barn, he lands in a fresh pile of cow patty and cries "Fire!". [3] The firemen came and asked where the fire was, but the boy said that, if he cried "Cow Patty", no one would get him.

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised this is/was marketed to kids, especially kids like I was who didn't need any help overriding the rules and being utterly sarcastic.

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Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. [...] Tortoise is still running. Rabbit is still growing his hair. Not the end.Fairy Tale Free-for-All: All the fairy tale characters exist and interact in the same book with No Fourth Wall, often getting into fights with each other. Cutting the Knot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess who stays at the king's and queen's castle fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball. His parents are satisfied and they get married, and they live happily, if not honestly, ever after.