![]() ![]() The next Scieszka/Smith collaboration The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales goes even further to break all the rules - pages are printed upside down, the contents page appears well into the book and the narrators - Jack and the Little Red Hen - skip in and out of well-remembered stories. A decade after its first publication, the book has sold over 4 million copies, been translated into ten languages and been widely acclaimed as a classic picture book for all ages. But it was not long before the book made it into print. The book was initially rejected by publishers on the grounds that it was too weird/sophisticated. The result of this collaboration was The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. just a little shorter." In 1988, Jon took a year off from teaching and swapped material with the illustrator Lane Smith. You'd tell them about this guy who turns into a cockroach, and they'd go, 'No way, man, no way.'") Scieszka's teaching experience prompted him to try writing for children, viewing his new readers as "the same smart people I had been trying to reach. Fans of Scieszka will not be surprised that he was a somewhat unorthodox teacher, who introduced his eight-year-old students to Kafka's Metamorphosis ("They loved it. Afterwards, he became a teacher in New York. He decided to shelve his medical ambitions and take a masters degree in Fiction Writing at Columbia University. In college, Jon Scieszka was on course to become a doctor, but spent his spare time attempting to write the Great American Novel. ![]()
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