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Buy this book from Amazon! 		The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka
Tags: award winner, fairy tales, absurd, twisted, funny, humor, silly, parody, caldecott winner
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"Parodic humor here runs riot...irrepressibly zany fun!" --Kirkus

* Caldecott Honor Book
* An ABBY Honor Book
* Publishers Weekly Top Selling Kids Books of All Time List
* ALA Notable Children's Book
* New York Times Notable Book of the Year
* New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year
* School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
* Booklist Children's Editors' Choice, "Top of the List"
* The Horn Book Fanfare
* Texas Bluebonnet Award
* Parenting's Reading-Magic Award
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Written by Adam C. on 09/28/2008
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It takes a certain sense of humor to enjoy this book, but I owned a copy of it about ten years before my first child was born.  Very enjoyable for adults, and likely a hit with kids too old for actual fairy tales but with a sense of the absurd and silly.