Since its publication in 1992,
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Talesby Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith has challenged and redefined the conventions of children’s literature, asserting itself as a seminal text in the postmodern canon. This collection of parodic fair(l)y (stupid) tales reconfigures the conventional boundaries separating child and adult readerships, the didactic and the ludic, narrative convention and narrative disruption, which are boldly reimagined. Through its adept utilization of postmodernist techniques – including metafiction, intertextuality, parody and self-referentiality –
The Stinky Cheeseman and Other Fairly Stupid Talestranscends the simplistic categorization of a “children’s book”, positioning itself as a cross-over picture book…
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Citation: Papailia, Artemis. "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 19 August 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41485, accessed 02 December 2024.]