![]() Stream It Or Skip It: 'Benedetta' on VOD, Paul Verhoevens' Salacious, Sacreligious Naughty-Nun Drama Stream It Or Skip It: 'Who You Think I Am' On Amazon Prime Video, Where Juliette Binoche Catfishes A Guy On Facebook & Falls Hard Zack Snyder, Wes Anderson, and Rebecca Hall Led 2021's Revival of Boxy, Black-and-White Pictures Stream It Or Skip It: '2nd Annual HA Festival: The Art Of Comedy' On HBO Max, Sometimes Sequels Really Don't Live Up To The Original Why 'MacGruber' Deserves To Find An Audience On TV Stream It Or Skip It: 'Being the Ricardos' on Amazon Prime Video, in Which Nicole Kidman Rolls Loaded Dice in Playing Lucille Ball Stream It Or Skip It: 'Jim Gaffigan: Comedy Monster' On Netflix, Pondering The Pandemic While Pretending It Has Passed Stream It or Skip It: 'Under the Christmas Tree' on Lifetime Is the Lesbian Holiday Romcom You've Been Waiting For Stream It or Skip It: 'Christmas Takes Flight' on CBS Wonders If a Small Town Pilot Can Win over a Scrooge's Heart Stream It Or Skip It: 'Christmas Is Canceled' On Amazon Prime Video, Where A Widowed Dermot Mulroney Starts Dating His Daughter's Frenemy Recommended to young readers with a taste for truly disgusting monsters, and to fans of William Steig.Stream It Or Skip It: 'Grumpy Christmas' On Netflix, Where A Grandpa Tries To Take Control Of Family Holiday Celebrations For my part, I found Shrek to be an engagingly monstrous read - perfect for young readers who like "gross" stories and humor - and although I wouldn't say it lived up to some of Steig's other titles (books like Amos & Boris, or Sylvester and the Magic Pebble), I did enjoy certain moments - like the rhyming courting scene, between Shrek and his princess! - immensely. ![]() I've been holding off seeing that film, until I had a chance to read Steig's original, and that seems to have been a wise choice, judging by the number of online reviews I have read, complaining that the original does not live up to its (apparently) far sweeter film adaptation. I always think of the German word "schrecklich" - meaning awful or terrible - when I run across a reference to this book, its "hero," or the film based upon them, and that seems completely appropriate (perhaps it was even intentional, on Steig's part?), as Shrek! is the story of one nasty ogre! Uglier even than his ugly parents, with a foul stench that causes flowers to wilt, and a penchant for letting off steam through his ears, Shrek, having been booted from his home, embarks on a quest to find his ideal mate, eventually winning the hand of "the most stunningly ugly princess on the surface of the planet," and living horribly ever after with her.An anti-fairy-tale like no other, this slender picture-book is one I have long been meaning to read, given the critical acclaim garnered by the film that is (loosely) based upon it. Steig also published thirteen collections of drawings for adults, beginning with About People in 1939, and including The Lonely Ones, Male/Female, The Agony in the Kindergarten, and Our Miserable Life. candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration and subsequently as the 1988 U.S. On the basis of his entire body of work, Steig was selected as the 1982 U.S. His European awards include the Premio di Letteratura per l'infanzia (Italy), the Silver Pencil Award (the Netherlands), and the Prix de la Fondation de France. Steig's books have also received the Christopher Award, the Irma Simonton Black Award, the William Allen White Children's Book Award, and the American Book Award. His books for children also include Dominic The Real Thief The Amazing Bone, a Caldecott Honor Book Amos & Boris, a National Book Award finalist and Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto, both Newbery Honor Books. ![]() ![]() In 1970, Steig received the Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble. He published his first children's book, Roland the Minstrel Pig, in 1968. In 1930, Steig’s work began appearing in The New Yorker, where his drawings have been a popular fixture ever since. He attended City College and the National Academy of Design. Every member of his family was involved in the arts, and so it was no surprise when he decided to become an artist. William Steig (1907-2003) was a cartoonist, illustrator and author of award-winning books for children, including Shrek!, on which the DreamWorks movies are based.
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