Do you enjoy reading fairy tales? I read books to my kids every night and they love stories with talking animals and fantasy characters.
I don't have kids, so I don't read them often, but I do enjoy fairy tales generally.  What's your kids favorite one?
The Gingerbread man is the current favorite, though the one I have doesn't have the typical happy ending that most fairy tales have
That's a good one.  It's a long shot, but have you ever heard of The Stinky Cheese Man?  It's a parody book of old fairy tales.
It sounds so familiar, but I have not read it, I see it was written by Jon Scieszka, so I may need to look more into that author
I don't know what else he's done, I just had that book when I was growing up and liked it a lot.  There's a lot of stories in it.
Literature, appointed by the Librarian of Congress for calendar years 2008 and 2009.
His "Time Warp Trio" series, which teaches kids history, has been adapted into a television show.
Personal life.
Scieszka (, ) was born in Flint, Michigan in 1954, the second oldest among six sons of Shirley Scieszka, and Louis Scieszka, a former elementary school principal. He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana for high school, Albion College in Michigan where he studied English and pre-med. for
of Psychology at the Point Park University, "when reading or listening to stories, children aren't assaulted with precreated graphic visual imagery. They don't have to see close-ups of...the agony of pain in the queen's eyes as she dances to her death." Nevertheless, Olfman's personal preference is to "skip the torture scenes when I read these stories to kids." Anthony Burgess commented: "Reading that, how seriously can we take it? It is fairy-tale violence, which is