Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith created 'The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales' in 1992. After 30+ years, they reflect on their work on the classic children's book and how their partnership began.
The Three Little Pigs,For their second book, Scieszka decided to take a bunch of other fairy tales and completely deconstruct them.
"We would just arrange stuff and rearrange stuff and say 'Well, how about if we started with this one.' And then we put this one at the end. And maybe this character could walk out of this story and go into this," says Smith."It was one of those serendipitous things. One day we looked at the big board and it all worked."
Smith's wife, Molly Leach, helped them with a lot of the design elements of the book. The Table of Contents, after it falls out of the sky, is all crunched up on the page. Smith and Scieszka wanted to have all of the words run off one of the pages. Leach suggested instead, what if the words just got smaller, and smaller, and smaller?Illustrations © Lane SmithRolling Stone.
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