The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Jon Scieszka. As the satire plays out, the Frog Prince confronts familiar witches from “Sleeping Beauty” “Snow White” and “Hansel and Gretel.” The tale finishes with a twist, but once again the Frog Prince and the princess live “happily ever after.”

Jon Scieszka challenges the Grimm brothers as The Frog Prince, Continued (1991) dares to ask what comes after “happily ever after?.” Plagued by the nagging princess, the Frog Prince can’t help but wonder if he was happier as his original frog self, before the day of the fateful kiss. Is he innocent? Perhaps not, yet this comic perspective sheds new light on the Big Bad Wolf.

Wolf pleads that he was innocently borrowing a cup of sugar to bake a cake for dear granny, when he was suddenly seized by a case of the sneezes that left him huffing and puffing. With prim spectacles and a proper bow tie, A. Wolf desperately defends his bad rap by arguing that he was framed. His first book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (1989), is a delicious retelling of the famous tale. Although publishers once thought them too sophisticated for children, Scieszka’s stories now arouse endless laughter from an enchanted young audience. As an elementary school teacher, Scieszka found inspiration for his lessons by rewriting fairy tales the lessons, in turn, led him to write successful stories offering fresh perspectives on dusty old tales. Jon Scieszka enters classic fairy tales, turns them upside down, and exits with a smirk What remains is hilarious buffoonery within these energetic, yet sophisticated parodies.īorn in Flint, Michigan, and raised in a large family, Jon Scieszka was educated at Albion College and received a master’s degree from the writing program at Columbia University.

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