What is Shrek!?
{{Italic title}} {{About|the book|the movie|Shrek}} '''''Shrek!''''' is a children’s book [[written]] and [[illustrated]] by [[William Steig]] in the year 1990 and is a [[parody]] of [[fairy tales]]. It’s about an [[ogre]] named [[Shrek (character)|Shrek]] who [[love]]s being a [[monster]], scaring [[villagers]] and [[stealing]] [[pheasant]]s from [[peasant]]s. And Shrek’s [[roar]] scares off [[knight]]s, [[dragon]]s and [[thunderstorm]]s. After a [[talking]] [[donkey]] tells Shrek that there’s a [[woman]] who is as [[ugly]] as he is in a [[castle]] called The Castle of the Nutty Night, Shrek decides to go there to [[marry]] her. On the way Shrek falls [[asleep]] and has a [[dream]] about [[children]] thinking he’s [[cute]] instead of [[scary]] and that scares Shrek into waking up. When Shrek makes it to the castle, he [[fight]]s the Nutty Night and wins. Then, Shrek walks into a hall of [[mirror]]s and is scared by all the [[reflection]]s there because of how ugly they are but then he realizes that they’re all actually reflections of him and is [[happy]] that he is that ugly. When Shrek meets the [[ogress]] and she’s as ugly as he is, they fall in [[love]], get married and start [[terrorizing]] [[village]]s together and they live “hideously ever after”. In 2001, [[DreamWorks Animation]] made the movie [[Shrek]] loosely based on this book. {{literature-stub}} [[Category:American children's books]] [[Category:1990 books]]