The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales is a children's book. It is a collection of twisted, humorous parodies of famous children's stories and fairy tales, such as "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Gingerbread Man". The book won the New York Times Best Illustrated Book award, was a Caldecott Honor book, and has won numerous other awards in various countries.
The star of the book is Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk, who tells the stories and deals with the rest of the cast. There's a very loud and annoying Little Red Hen that comes in to complain about no one helping her make her bread (or do anything.) Chicken Licken believes that the sky is falling, and demands that someone calls the President. Jack introduces Little Red Running Shorts, a counterpart of Little Red Riding Hood, by blurting out the entire story — including the ending — so she refuses to be in it. The Stinky Cheese Man, a counterpart of The Gingerbread Man, is afraid to be near anyone because he thinks they will eat him... though they are really trying to get away from his horrid smell.