William Steig’s original 1990 picture book Shrek! has a few elements that Shrek fans will remember from the 2001 animated movie it inspired. There’s a big, green, lumbering protagonist with a prominent gut and weird little ear-antennae. (Eartennae?) He’s crude and ugly, but he’s extremely proud of the way he frightens and revolts people. And he does eventually meet a donkey, fight his way into a castle, and meet a princess whose face matches his own.