The Three Pigs Module 7

The Three Pigs


Book Summary: 
Starts off as the usual story, three pigs, building their houses. The wolf appears and huff and puffs and blows down the first two pig's houses. Those pigs survive and manage to play around with the page and flies off on the sheet with the wolf and visits other stories. After some adventures they decide to go home and have to unfold the wolf so they can finish their own story. Nice finish and clever way to tie in a couple of stories and end as this story always does.


APA Reference of Book:
Wiesner, D. (2001). The three pigs. New York: Clarion Books.

Impressions:  Not at all what I was thinking. This had a different twist. It had a fun twist that was delightful to read. The drawing were good, and I like the dragon and the cat from other stories living happily ever after. Nice one.

Professional Review:
This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf’s huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. The transition signals the start of a freewheeling adventure with characteristic David Wiesner effects—cinematic flow, astonishing shifts of perspective, and sly humor, as well as episodes of flight.
Satisfying both as a story and as an exploration of the nature of story, The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level. Dialogue balloons, text excerpts, and a wide variety of illustration styles guide the reader through a dazzling fantasy universe to the surprising and happy ending. Fans of Tuesday’s frogs and Sector 7’s clouds will be captivated by old friends—the Three Pigs of nursery fame and their companions—in a new guise.
(The Three Pigs. (n.d.). Goodreads. Retrieved , from http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/138069.The_Three_Pigs.)

Library Uses: This could be used to help young writers see how to change up a story and make it theirs. After reading several version of the Three Pigs, and comparing and contrasting them, they could write their own version.