The Three Pigs

Title: The Three Pigs

Written by: David Wiesner

Summary: This story is a spoof of the classic Three Little Pigs. This version starts off the same, with the wolf coming to huff and puff and blows the house down, however he ends up blowing the pig right out of the page, where it is safe. The three pigs end up in between the pages of classic children’s stories meeting interesting characters as they explore.

Wowee! I really loved this story. It was so fun to read! There is a serious sense of magic that you get when reading this book, like you’re let in on a secret that no one else knows except for you and these three pigs. I love how at first the pigs look cartoonish when they are inside the pages of the classic story, however when they fall out of the pictures, they look more life like. They way the wolf is looking around while he is supposed to be eating up the pigs makes us feel like stories are always happening right as we read them. I always believed that my toys would wake up the second I left my room, this book gives me that same feeling. When the three pigs got away from the wolf I was wondering what was going to happen to the worlf and the rest of the story. I really like how Weisner brings us back to the original story, however there is a dragon and the cat with the fiddle. Setting takes a huge character throughout The Three Pigs. Without the setting placed outside of the pages of the story, we would not be able to see what the three pigs were doing. There are a couple pages where there is hardly any pictures or words on the page where the pigs are riding around on a page like an airplane. I love these two pages. I don’t know why but when they are on the airplane and one of them is saying “Wheeeeee” it reminds me of the commicial with the pig in the back seat screaming “Whee wheee wheee”  out the window while a mom drives him home. I love that commercial and it made me think of it. The Three Pigs is a great way to show kids that they can make up their own versions of fairy tales, and have them end however they want.