This fractured fairy tale has many classic stories in it that we all know and love, only they are not the way we remember them. Story like the gingerbread man, the princess and the pea, and little red riding hood are given a totally new twist. Our narrator Jack, makes a mockery of the title page, the table of contents, and even the endpaper by shuffling, scoffing, and generally paying no mind to structure. Characters slide in and out of tales; Cinderella rebuffs Rumpelstiltskin, and the Giant at the top of the beanstalk snacks on the Little Red Hen. There is not much to learn or take away from this book, it is just simply a fun story.
I always loved this book as a kid. One of my favorite things to do was to read this book to my younger friends or kids I babysit for. I loved the idea of fairy tales I know and love being completely turned upside down. There was something so interesting about stories we know so well being changed. In most fairy tales there is a happily ever after or some lesson learned, but in The Stinky Cheese Man, that is not the case.
This is just read a loud book for students in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. They will simply laugh out loud while the book is being read. I think this is a fun book to include in a classroom library because it goes against many of the stereotypes of what people think a book should be. Reading is reading and if kids want to read a book that is a little different and fun, then this is the book for them.
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