The Three Pigs 

David Wiesner

©2001 Clarion Books

26 Pages

Traditional Literature

            In this twist on the famous Three Little Pigs story, the author starts with telling the classic story. The author then has the pigs jump out of the story to go into another world. The pigs find themselves in other classic stories. They rescue the cat and the fiddle and a dragon. The pigs fold the page and make a paper airplane to travel to other stories. This funny twist on the classic story is sure to capture the attention of the reader.

            The illustrations are in watercolor, gouache, colored inks, pencil, and colored pencil. The illustrations cover the page when telling the story that every reader is familiar with. When telling when the pigs escape into another story to rescue, there is a lot of negative space used.

            This book would best be used in younger grades like kindergarten through second grade. The students have all heard the class story of the Three Little Pigs so this twist on the story would get their brains to start thinking out of the box. The book would be wonderful to use as a writing prompt. The students could put their own twist on another classic story. The teacher could also use the book to teach students about different types of genres of books.

            This book won the 2002 Caldecott Award.  The author is famous for his book Tuesday.