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The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
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"This is a book you can actually give to a kid as a present. It has classic fairy tales and some of it's own invention, but all are grossly altered. With funny graphics and a sardonic, never happy but cynically funny re-telling of old classics, you might actually get the kid to thank you for the gift."
Duck in the Truck
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"This is one of the best illustrated children's books I have read to my kids. It is wrong that Jez Alborough did not earn a Caldecott Award for this book or any of his other books. Duck appears nice enough as he gets help from bystanders Frog, Sheep and Goat to get his truck out of the muck. They push, they pull and in the end Duck's true colors are shown (pun intended). The illustrations bur..."
Sector 7 by David Wiesner
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"OK- admit, you are really sick of reading the same insipid story to your kids every night. Never fear, David Weisner has created a number of books that appeal to both toddlers and adults. Sector 7 is a surreal tale of a boy who befriends the clouds and persuades them to shapeshift into giant cloudfish floating along in the sky. The book has no little text but huge, beautiful images tha..."
