The three pigs

The Three Pigs by David Wiesner is a fictional children’s picture book that is similar to the children’s story The Three Little Pigs. Both stories start the same way, all three pigs build different houses to live in and the wolf threatens to blow each of them done. However, instead of each pig

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running to the other pig’s house, they each escape through the white spaces on the page. The major difference is that the pigs travel through other children’s stories to escape the wolf. I, personally, did not like the new changes to the storyline. The Three Little Pigs was my favorite story when I was a kid and it is the first book that I learned to read. However, the new changes to add a little more creativity to the original story, and can allow children to use their imagination more after the read the story because they can imagine what other stories they can combined together.

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I love the Caldecott and Newbery awards - they generally steer me in the direction of quality books ... just like The Three Pigs. The story deconstructs the original fable in a delightfully fun story. It begins as always: the three pigs build three houses, and the Big Bad Wolf comes along to huff,

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and puff, and blow the house down. This time, though, the wolf puffs the pig right out of his story. Shocked at his unexpected salvation, the pig follows along with his story and arrives just in time to rescue his brother from the wolf. The two pigs track down their final sibling, and decide to stroll around and peek in other books, which are all represented by corridors of illustrated pages that belong to different stories. They pop in to the Hey Fiddle Fiddle rhyme, and the curious cat follows them out, and then the whole gang scoots over to a fairy tale - fortunately for the dragon, who is spared the knight's sword. Now that their party is enlarged by a huge toothsome beast that breathes fire, they deem it safe to return to their comfortable house (the last one standing) and the big bad wolf decides that a dragon is a bit much to chew.

That may be the whole story in a nutshell, but it does not convey the spirit of the book. Wiesner is known for his lavish illustrations, and his skill in this book shines. The story starts out in pictures that resemble old picture books of fairy tales. Once the pig is blown out, though, the art is apparently rendered via computer graphics - it has that densely realistic texture to it. When they visit the nursery rhyme, all the characters, pigs included, take on the look of a pastel painting appropriate for the cow jumping over the moon. And when the join the dragon's story, all turn to black-and-white. I love the use of illustration here! It's not just the colors that change, it's the whole style of illustration, the medium used, that changes for each story. I wish I were an artist to have the terminology to explain it. The effect is incredible.

Also, the way Wiesner plays with the fourth wall is a lot of fun. This idea that storybook characters can exit their story. Where is that blank white area that they find? What is this intriguing corridor of stories. At one point, a pig is illustrated looking straight at the reader and remarks that he thinks someone is out there. That's great. The book presents the dynamic relationship between reader and story in a visually compelling format, and is a fun story, besides. Deserving of the award, and multiple reads.

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The three little pigs is the traditional story how three brothers build a three houses, one of which is a straw house, stick house, and a house made of bricks. These 3 pigs are determined to keep that big bad wolf from huffing, and puffing, and blowing their house in. The difference in this story

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is not only does he blow their houses in but he also manages to blow the 3 little pigs right off the page into their own little adventure.

I loved seeing the twist that this story offered from traditional tale into a newly remade story. I am going to have to buy this story to add to my library when I become a teacher. Very cute illustrations.

One activity I would have the children do is make puppets of the three little pigs and the wolf, and have them act out the story as a puppet show. Also the teacher and student could look at other ways to rewrite or add to the stories that were once traditional. This would help promote writing skills as well as literacy

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This is a creative twist on the class "The Three Little Pigs." The book starts out like the classic book, but then the pigs end up visiting characters from other classic fairytales. Children of all ages are sure to enjoy this book, but older children may appreciate the storyline more.

This book is a spin off the old tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The story starts off the same but soon the pigs are jumping off the pages and on to other story book pages. They leave the big bad wolf and meet up with the cat and the fiddle. Soon, they are off again to save a

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dragon. The pigs and the dragon head home to the third little pig's brick house. When the big bad wolf shows up to blow the house down, he has no idea what's waiting inside for him. This would be a good book to read to older kids who already knew the story about The Three Little Pigs.

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Ah - no pig deaths. Fabulous movement through the various nursery rhymes and stores. Great illustrations.

The story starts out as a familiar retelling of the Three Little Pigs, but then the pigs step out of their story and wander into various other fairy tales. So fun!

This story takes a classic fairytale and gives it a new twist. The Three Pigs fits under the fairytale category with the various talking animals. The setting of the story is also once upon a time... and there are good and evil characters. The setting of this book changes drastically, while still

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remaining in a fantasy land. With the change of the setting also comes a change in the illustrations, creating a great mixed media book.

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This book has a very interesting concept. It is interesting to see this idea in an actually story that is so well known. This would not be a good story to start children off with. They will need to know the basic story before all the different variations are introduced. This book is a good example

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of a folktale because it has been passed down through many generations and is told to children.

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The three little pigs are being attacked by the wolf and what do they do? Jump out of their story and into another! They continue flipping pages of stories until they encounter a dragon. This dragon comes back with the three pigs to their story and scares away the wolf. They live happily ever

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after, with the dragon, and they continued to rewrite their own story!

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There are countless versions of the classic story of the Three Little Pigs, but this is the most unique one I have ever read. I was not expecting the twist Wiesner put on the story, and I was fascinated by the results. This is definitely a book I would like to add to my classroom library for

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students to read on their own; it would be worth it is my students enjoyed it even half as much as I did. The illustrations are fantastic, and it is a Caldecott Medal book.

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Marvellous metafictional mangling of the fairytale which keeps the reader on his toes. My two-year old loves it - but the original will be a let-down now. Prize-winner and it shows.

The story started out like the original Three Little Pigs Story, but then when the wolf comes and blows them a way the author put a good twist on the story when he had the pigs fly out of the story and into what seemed to be story book land.
I can in some way relate to the story just because there

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are times in my life when i wish i could be blown into some on elses story for a little while.
I think with this book in my classroom i would have the students maybe write there own version of The Three Little Pigs.

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The Three Pigs
By
David Wiesner
Most of us have read the story of The Three Pigs and we all know the story and how it ends. David Wiesner has written a more exciting version of The Three Pigs. In David Wiesner’s book The Three Pigs the story takes a new exciting turn. In this story the pigs get to

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choose how they want the story to end. This book has great illustrations that tell the story in a new and adventurous way. The plot and setting that we know as the story of The Three Pigs is totally different!
I think this is a great exciting picture book. The story of the Three Pigs takes a different route then what most picture books take. I think this is a story that children would find very funny and exciting! The illustrations were great! Some of the pages did not have text just illustrations which were very interesting. This is definitely a book I would choose to read to my classroom.
After reading the book The Three Pigs to my third graders, I would have them engage in creative writing in their journals. I would ask the students to pick a story that has been read to them or an epic movie they have watched and write whether they would change the ending and why. If they students choose to change the ending of the story I would have them write the story with their own creative ending.

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The Three Pigs started out like the original story with the wolf coming to blow down their houses. When they reach the third house the story changes and the pigs set out on their own adventure. Some new additions are added to the story, but the pigs still end up happily ever after.
This is the known

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beast tale that we all know and love, but the middle was really different in this book. The pigs set out on their own adventure and there wasn’t much to read between the beginning and the end. Personally I didn’t care too much for the story.
I would have the students make their version of the little pig story since this book differs from the original. Another activity could be having a group activity to discuss the differences between this one and another author’s books.

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This book is about three little pigs who go out on their own to build their own houses. A wolf goes to the first two houses and blows them down because they wouldn't let the wolf in. Before the pigs go to the third pigs house they set off on their own adventure.Bringing a dragon back to third pigs

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house with them. After seeing the dragon the wolf gets scared and runs off.

I did not like this book at all. I love the original story of "The Three Little Pigs." When the pigs went on their own adventure it was too much for me, I think if the author would have kept more to the original story I might of enjoyed the book.

In the classroom you can have students draw pictures of the wolf and the three pigs and see what their reactions were. You could also read another rendition of "The Three Little Pigs," and discuss what the differences were in the stories.

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This is an inventive take on the classic “three little pigs” story. Mid-way through the book, the three little pigs decide to start exploring other texts and meet some new friends along the way, who they take back to live with them in the third little pig’s strong brick house. I found the

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book amusing, although a bit hard to read aloud for story time, so I’d recommend this book more for children to read on their own.

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In this book there are three little pigs! They all decide to sety out on there own and build them each a house. They wolf goes to the first pigs housend blows it down. He then ventures to the second pigs house. He blows and blows and this one falls down too. He sets off to the third pigs house.

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Little did he know that they brought a dragon to it. He didn’t get to blow this one down and the three pigs lived happily ever after,
I liked it this book okay I guess. Pictures were cute.
You could make them draw a picture of the scene they liked and talk about the book with them.

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This is a very simple picture book text and what could be engaging for students is its familiarity. The teacher must be very creative and purposeful in designating or using this book by developing instruction and activities that extend the pattern and style of the classic story and include relevant

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discussion. Students reading it on its own without instruction and purpose might lose interest.

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At first, you start reading and the pictures seem like every other telling of The Three Little Pigs that you've read since you were in pre-school. But then, Wiesner whips out his magic brush and you really see his talents at work. He watercolors his way to an entirely new Three Little Pigs. The

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wolf starts to huff and puff, and he blows the first pig right out of the story. The pig starts to wander into the other pages, joining the 2nd pig, and then both of them join the third pig. They wander into other stories--at this point, the pages of the stories are smaller than the actual pages of the real book you hold in your hands. The pigs and the friends that the accumulate from other stories and nursery rhymes wander around looking at all these pages from a bunch of stories, and then they see the 3rd pig's brick house in one of the pages, so they decide to head back, all of them, including a dragon, the cat, fiddle, and spoon from Hey Diddle Diddle. When the wolf comes a' calling, he's in for a surprise, for sure. More classic, imaginative Wiesner--his stories always have that extra touch of whimsy. I enjoyed the way that he seemed to be saying that there's this kind of connection between stories, and that the victims in fairy tales might just be innocent victims, instead of creatures deserving their violent ends--no more dragon-slaying here. The animals here seemed to almost be forming a union for the protection of fairy-tale and nursery rhyme figures against gratuitous violence. Recommended for all collections!

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This book is basically a spin off of the traditional story of the three little pigs. This book however, may confuse some children at first because the pigs begin to jump into other folktale stories then eventually come back to the original story but with more action and fun.

This story was interesting because I thought it was just going to be the same old three little pigs like I have read as a child. This book is a great modern twist to the story. In this story instead of the pig running to his brothers house when the big bad wolf came to blow his house down, the pig

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would leave the whole page out of the book. Eventually all three pigs were off the pages and they went to walk around and they found different stories that they wanted to check out and in the end they invited their new friends over to the brick house and hyad dinner.

I enjoyed this book the second time I read it. I got confused the first time becasue of how the pigs would leave the page and it would keep that page on the page I was reading so I did not know what I was supposed to read and what did not mean anything. Sorry if that does bnot make sense.

I would have this story in my classroom in the library. If I was teaching an older class I would read this story aloud to thme butI think it would be to complictated for younger students. I would also use this story if I was doing fairytales, pigs, or even wolves.

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This book is a spin off the old tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The story starts off the same but soon the pigs are jumping off the pages and on to other story book pages. The leave the big bad wolf and meet up with the cat and the fiddle. Soon, they are off again to save a

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dragon. The pigs and the dragon head home to the third little pig's brick house. When the big bad wolf shows up to blow the house down, he is in for a big suprise. And of course, they all live happily ever after.

This book was a Caldecott Medal winner and has very interesting pictures. The front of the book is beautiful and the story inside is very entertaining. Taking the old traditional fantasy and putting a modern spin on it will make it appealing to the a whole new generation of readers.

This book could be used in several ways in the classroom. We could do a lesson on beast tales or a unit on wolves. This is not really a good book to read aloud as the pigs have several speaking parts that are seperate from the overall story and it just does not flow well in that aspect.

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This is a unique twist to the classic story of The Three Little Pigs. The story is how the pigs take control of their story and decide to create their own story by jumping into other books and allowing random characters such as a dragon and the cat with the fiddle to come home with them.