![]() ![]() it'll be a great investigation of what a book is," says Scieszka. It was a hit.įor their second book, Scieszka decided to take a bunch of other fairy tales and completely deconstruct them. ![]() ![]() Their first book together was The True Story of the Three Little Pigs - a take on the classic The Three Little Pigs, but narrated by the wolf. Illustrations © Lane Smith The Stinky Cheese Man ![]() "He was bringing this wealth of experience from the art world, just bringing pure art. "I was bringing all my favorite literary devices and books that I loved - metafiction - stuff like Tristram Shandy," says Scieszka. When Scieszka and Smith met, they connected over a shared love of high culture, art and literature, but also pop culture. He read them George and Martha, and Frog and Toad - anything other than the leveled readers. The second graders were completely taken with Franz Kafka. "Like, 'Hey, have you ever heard this story about a guy who woke up one morning and he was a bug?'" So he started testing out other material. Scieszka, why are we even reading this?' " By that point, Scieszka had earned his master's degree in fiction writing, done some apartment painting ("Because that's about what you can do with an MFA."), gotten a lot of rejections for book manuscripts, and had turned to teaching elementary school, where he was exposed to some truly terrible leveled reading material for children. ![]()
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