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The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Eugene Trivizas (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)
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An altered retelling of the traditional tale about the conflict between pig and wolf-with a surprise ending. |
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Author: Eugene Trivizas (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)
Publisher: Aladdin; Reprint edition
Pub. in: April, 1997
ISBN: 068981528X
Pages: 32
Measurements: 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00396
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-0689815287
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The three little wolves and the big bad pig tells the classic story of the three litttle pigs and th big bad wolf, with a few twists. Instead of three little pigs, three little wolves have to contend with the treacherous big bad pig. The wolves also use nonconventional methods to build their houses, and the pig uses it's modern ways to knock them down.
The antics of the wolves making houses out of brick, cement, and metal, as well as the pig destroy their hard work with a sleedgehammer, pnuematic drill, and dynamite, controls most of the comical antics of this story. The zaniness of the events that occur will leave the reader laugh and imbued with happiness.
While containing many modern elements, the three little wolves and the big bad pig still contains classic yet crucial parts of the original tale. for instance, in the beginning, the three are told to go make a life for themselves by their mother, as well as the huffing, the puffing, and blowing the house in.
From page to page, this well-written book will make you think you know the ending, but surprise you with a totally different one! The story won't keep you on the edge of your seat, but rather on the floor laughing at this hilarious book. Enjoy!
Target readers:
Kids aged up 4
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Eugene Trivizas is one of Greece’s foremost writers for children. Helen Oxenbury, one of the world’s best–loved illustrators, is a two–time winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway award for illustration, most recently for her retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
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When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing. It takes a chance encounter with a flamingo pushing a wheelbarrow full of flowers to provide a surprising and satisfying solution to the little wolves' housing crisis.
Eugene Trivizas's hilarious text and Helen Oxenbury's enchanting watercolors have made this delightfully skewed version of the traditional tale a contemporary classic.
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D. Blankenship (MSL quote), Ozark
<2007-03-16 00:00>
The story of the Three Little Pigs has been around for years and years and few children, nor adults, for that matter do not know of it. Here we have the roles of the "bad guy" completely reversed. The kids love this one and think it is truely funny. I did like the fact that the wolves did not receive the bad press that they normally receive in such tales and I did like the fact that even though the Big Bad Pig was truely bad in the beginning, he did indeed have redeeming features. The illustrations were great and the text followed the illustrations perfectly. This is a fun book to read to the class. I highly recommend this one.
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A. Woodley (MSL quote), New Zealand
<2007-03-16 00:00>
Nice little book which tips the concept of the three little pigs on its head. My under 5 year old girls have started to understand that the story of the three little pigs has been told from a different perspective - now it is the three little wolves and the big bad pig
Illustrated beautifully by Helen Oxenbury it is a fun and funny story. a new morality tale.
I think I enjoy it more than my two girls though, they can see that it is funny but I have a feeling that they are still really too young to appeciate it completely. It is more for the older child (4 and up definitely)as the humour is just a bit more sophisticated than they are ready for.
I will re-introduce this for them later as I do enjoy it and would like to share with them
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Chapulina R (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-16 00:00>
As a kid, I loved wolves and hated the Three Little Pigs. So this funny, wolf-friendly revision of the creepy old classic really tickles me! It begins with Mama Wolf sending her doting pups off into the wide world with the warning: "Beware of the Big Bad Pig!" Keeping Mama's message in mind, the trio decides to build a strong house for protection from the boorish boar. The three fluffy, friendly, refined little wolves are never named, but I like to call them Frasier, Niles, and Daphne. The pig, a burly bully of a construction-worker, could be named Brutus. Safe in the yard of their new brick home, the little wolves play a spirited game of squash. Suddenly the swaggering swine shows up! In a reversal of the original tale, the Big Bad Pig pounds on the wolves' door and demands to come in, while they quaver, "Not by the hair on our chinny-chin-chins!" Then, using his construction hardware, the pig destroys the brick house, and the wolves flee with their fluffy tails between their legs! As the three little wolves build progressively massive fortresses, the big bad pig employs heavy ground-breaking and demolitions equipment to smash them to rubble. At last, the little wolves have no materials left with which to build, except - ah, but I'm not going to give away the surprise! Let's just say, the ending is a lot sweeter than the original. No one gets boiled alive or devoured, and the the classic adversaries even become friends. Kids and parents will love the beautiful artwork and the silliness of the story, although the ending might seem just a bit too saccharine after all the destruction and mayhem.
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L. J Young (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-16 00:00>
When my daughter first brought this book home from kindergarten I tried to read it to her. I couldn't! I was laughing so hard that I couldn't make it through. I evently did, and my daughter loved it. She then took it to have her grandmother read it to her, the same thing happened.
Even today, as an 11 year old, my daughter loves this book. It is one of the few "children's" books that still remain on her bookshelf.
Is there a moral? Does there have to be? It is a funny, lighthearted story, that gives kids the opportunity to explore creativity by changing things as they know it.
I have shared this book with several of my daughter's classes, and each time I have, I have been told that there have been several more orders for this book.
Is it a classic? Probably not. It is entertaining? Most definately.
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