Customer Reviews
Little boys love the Stinky Cheese Man 
2008-07-28
Although it doesn't make as regular an appearance in our bedtime reading schedule, the Stinky Cheese Man does produce giggles.
My kids are too young to know all of the fairy tales this book is busy shredding in the name of parody. That's OK. I plan to reintroduce this to them when they get older.
For now, all I have to do is provide the Stinky Cheese Man with a high-pitched, pseudo-Spongebob voice and read the text as "fast as I can" and I've got a happy audience at bedtime.
Great for kids and parents! 
2008-07-06
This is a great read to keep kids and parents entertained alike. The play on the original fairy tales is great. This is a must for a library.
careful 
2008-05-16
be careful here. i ordered a book that was supposed to be in "very good" condition and it arrived with bits of food stuck on the pages and animal bite marks in the corners. thankfully i contacted them for a refund and the sent me another book that was in good condition at no additional charge. that was nice of them but it still made me weary.
You've got to be kidding me...... 2008-02-22
I read this book when I was 10-11 years of age. Its sarcastic humor and wit was the perfect "transition" book for me to move into pre-teen and teen novels, and eventually adult literature. Anyone reading this to a child below 9 years of age is potentially confusing them and depriving them of a great book.
the stinky cheese man 2007-12-22
I have purchased this book for every child in my family and as gifts for other children it is funny and sarcastic in a nice way and adds spice to fairy tales I love this book
stinky cheese man rules 2007-10-10
"Parodic humor here runs riot...irrepressibly zany fun!" --
Kirkus * Caldecott Honor Book
* An ABBY Honor Book
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Publishers Weekly Top Selling Kids Books of All Time List
* ALA Notable Children's Book
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New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year
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School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
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Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, "Top of the List"
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The Horn Book Fanfare
* Texas Bluebonnet Award
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Parenting's Reading-Magic Award
Hilarious! 2007-09-03
They read this book to me in grade school and I thought it was very funny. Not your traditional fairy tale stories but its great. Little kids may not get the full humor but even a college grad like myself still enjoys it. Plan to read it to my children when they are older!
The best in fractured fairy tales! 2007-08-19
This is one of my favorite children's books, because it takes the old fairy tales we all know and love, then gives them a twist and a half! Check out the table of contents: The Princess and the Bowling Ball, The Really Ugly Duckling, Little Red Running Shorts, Cinderumpelstiltskin, The Tortoise and the Hair, and (my personal favorite) The Stinky Cheese Man! Each skewed story is told on just one page (okay, some extend to two or more) and they are, well, straaaaaaange. But kids dig 'em. Adults too. All you have to do is open your mind and let the weird, half-crazy side of you out.
Worst Book Ever!? 
2007-08-03
Quite possibly the worst book I've ever read for kids. It might be funny for adults, but after trying to read it to my child, I tossed it in the trash. It's not like traditional FairyTales are that great anyway, but to put a stupid and sarcastic twist on them? It falls flat with me.
Not for children 2007-07-16
I bought this thinking my children might like it. It is definitely not for children. It could confuse them.
