The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs - Hardcover

Scieszka, Jon; Smith, Lane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670888443 ISBN 13: 9780670888443

Publisher: Puffin, 1999

Synopsis

The wolf gives his own outlandish version of what really happened when he tangled with the three little pigs.

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Review:

Did the story of the three little pigs ever seem slightly biased to you? All that huffing and puffing--could one wolf really be so unequivocally evil? Finally, we get to hear the rest of the story, "as told to author Jon Scieszka", straight from the wolf's mouth. As Alexander T. Wolf explains it, the whole Big Bad Wolf thing was just a big misunderstanding. Al Wolf was minding his own business, making his granny a cake, when he realized he was out of a key ingredient. He innocently went from house to house (one made of straw, one of sticks and one of bricks) asking to borrow a cup of sugar. Could he help it if he had a bad cold, causing him to sneeze gigantic, gale-force sneezes? Could he help it if pigs these days use shabby construction materials? And after the pigs had been ever-so-accidentally killed, well, who can blame him for having a snack?

As with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, (another stellar collaboration by Scieszka and illustrator Lane Smith), children who know all the old stories by heart will delight in reading impudent new versions. Here, Scieszka's text is clever, savvy and pithy, and Smith's stretchy-strange illustrations complete this funny, irreverent, thoroughly original tale.

About the Author:

American-born Lane Smith is known for illustrating works by authors such as Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl and George Saunders. He received the Caldecott Medal for his Grandpa Green in 2012, while his 2010 It's a Book was a New York Times bestseller for over six months and was translated into over twenty-five languages. He is a four-time recipient of the New York Times Best Illustrated Book award, and in 2014 he received the Society of Illustrators' Lifetime Achievement award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670888443
• ISBN 13: 9780670888443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32