Jon Scieszka, in The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, Illustrated by Lane Smith, presents self-referential text at it's most explicit, and in doing so, lays out the parts of of a picture book. On the first page, below, the reader is introduced to endpapers, the narrator, and the title page. Meanwhile, both characters know they exist only within the book.
Jonathan Klassen created this site for Illinois State University's English 351 “Hypertext” course.
Last updated on
December 20, 2004
