Scieszka, Jon
Scieszka, Jon (1954– ),American picture‐book author who satirizes folk and fairy tales with a humorous postmodern twist. The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by A. Wolf (1989) parodies the traditional villain as an unreliable narrator, while The Frog Prince, Continued (1991) challenges the premiss of living ‘happily ever after’ with the Grimms' witches lurking about. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales (1992), including the Ugly Duckling that grew into an ugly duck, was selected by the American Library Association as a Caldecott Honor Book for its sophisticated, surrealistic paintings by the illustrator Lane Smith.
Betsy Hearne
Bibliography
Apseloff, Marilyn Fain, ‘The Big, Bad Wolf: New Approaches to an Old Folk Tale’, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 15.3 (fall...
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