The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig |
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Eugene Trivizas
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Pages: 32 (Paperback)
ISBN: 1405209453
Pub: Egmont Books Ltd
Pub date: 2003-10-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11333
Reader Reviews:
great book (0/0 people found this helpful)
I got this book when i was three and my mom would read it to me. I am now 17 and i read the book to myself and i still laugh everytime i read it. Its an awsome book!!!
Wonderful variation on an old and much loved tale (2/2 people found this helpful)
A few years ago I bought this for my cousin's young children, and they greatly enjoyed it. This year I bought it for my own five-year-old twins, and they also loved it. And it's also very funny for mummies and daddies.
As will probably be obvious from the title, it reverses the tale of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. But where the big bad wolf was an arch loser who only managed to be dangerous because the first two pigs were silly, in this story the big bad pig is as smart as he is mean.
Probably the ideal time to introduce this to your children is when they have just started to get bored with or see the holes in the traditional versions of all the favourite stories - it would not be as funny to someone who did not know the story of the three little pigs.
Very strongly recommended.
the Best Kids Book (1/1 people found this helpful)
I can't recommend this highly enough. Both me and my 6 year old absolutelyy howl with delight every time we read it, and this is as much to do with the pictures as the text The face of the pig as he demolished house after house is ever more happy. Why it isn't better known beats me - though I guess traditionalists might be horrified at it!
A book they'll love -- and so will you (1/2 people found this helpful)
My five-year-old loves the idea of this book, that the little wolves can be scared and good while the pig is rough and bad.
It's an amusing read for both of you as the pigs go to greater and greater extremes to keep themselves safe while the wolf demolishes house after house with a chainsaw, pneumatic drill and even explosives. No time-wasting huffing and puffing here!
The thing that lost this book a star for me is the ending. The pig is sorry, the wolves invite him in for a cup of tea and all's right with the world. Maybe I just have a particularly blood-thirsty child, but for us it fell flat after the excalation of tension throughout the story.
Try it, though; I guarantee you'll both enjoy it!
An action-packed subversion of the three pigs. Great!! (7/8 people found this helpful)
We have had this story so many times from the library that I have now got to buy a copy. It's based on a reversal of the story of the three little pigs, a subversion which the children think is funny to start with, but there's more to it than that. Three little wolves build successively more secure houses with increasingly interesting building materials to keep themselves safe from the Big Bad Pig, and the pig uses a sledgehammer, a pneumatic drill and finally explosives to destroy them. This whole process is fascinating to a three year old boy. After this escalation, there's then a lovely peaceful end to the story where the wolves realize that super-secure construction isn't the answer and try a different approach involving sweet-scented flowers which reform the pig and he moves in with the wolves. There are surely lessons on life to be drawn here but for the children it's just a great action-packed story with additional fun to be had spotting the teapot throughout the book. Helen Oxenbury's illustrations are lovely - with a touch of menace in the earlier pictures and lovely colourful jubilant ones at the end.
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