The Stinky Cheese Man

All I can say is I have loved that book since the first time I read it. The story line is pure brilliance and it breaks so many molds of children's literature. No other story has the narrator as an actually present character, normally they are just background noise. The book actually comes alive as you read it. The characters are fighting with the narrator about telling their stories. To me, it sounds exactly like children. They all have funny and silly stories that they want to tell and so they fight with each other about who will tell theirs first. There is usually on child that takes charge and tells the other kids what to do, and then the rest argue with him. Well that is The Stinky Cheese Man in a nut-shell. The illustrations add to a wonderful story, and as stated in class, the book would not be the same without them. This class has always been so entertaining. I was waiting for when we got to these kinds of stories, as they are pretty much every kids favorite. Aside from Dr. Seuss, this nonsense story adds a lot of much needed fun within reading.