![]() This forceful presentation brings added pizzazz to an old favorite. Professional Recommendation/Review #1: Publishers Weekly A big, bad, wold came to all of their houses and blew all of them down besides the pig with the house made out of bricks. ![]() One pig made their house out of straw, one out of sticks, and the last out of bricks. Opening line/sentence: “One morning a long time ago an old sow called her three little pigs to her and said, “I have something to tell you.’”īrief Book Summary: Three little pigs all built themselves houses. Theme(s): Being mean doesn’t get you very far. ![]() Title: Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf I would use this with an anchor chart Venn diagram to compare the differences between the two characters and find their positive and negative attributes. Teaching Idea: I would teach protagonist and antagonist with this story as an opener of the two types of characters. However, I may be biased because, I do have a personal favorite of this folktale. It gets the point across of the folktale but, it does not do a very good job diving into details. He accomplishes this with the first two houses, but the final brick home is not successfully blown down.Įvaluation: After reading this book, I feel that this is a good version of the story but, it is not the best. Their is an antagonist: the big bad wolf, who comes to town and attempts to blow every house down. One pig builds theirs out of straw, one out of sticks and the final one is made out of bricks. Summary: This book is a classic folktale that is based upon three little pigs that build their own individual house. But even for the weird character portrayals I must say that I did like the forms of the houses made out of piles, which is in its own right a bit more creative than in other tellings.Īll in all it was a decent retelling of this fairy tale but not the best thus I would probably steer clear of re-reading it in the future if I were to come across it again. Upon closer examination the wolf itself seems like a cartoonish monster with extreme emphasis of physical traits that would now be considered probably politically incorrect while the look of the pig on the last page was chilling thus providing the book with a dark end. The illustrations are clearly Glen Rounds - colored dully and with the wolf seeming more like a scraggly coyote found in some of his wild horse books. Furthermore the last little piggy appears to be more resourceful, more knowledgeable and also a wise little piggy compared to all his other counterparts in various re-tellings. Secondly the majority of the story being told to the read was almost word-for-word copy of the story being told in all the other versions that have been presented and it was only towards the attempted capture of the third pig did the story actually open it to more than a basic telling. Unfortunately, though, this is wasn't the case for the most part.įirst of all the title is way too long while many readers whether they are young or old are already used to the story's characters thus don't need all the primary ones pointed out. Was excited to see what Glen Rounds would bring to the table with this story since he leans a bit more towards putting his own spin on the stories that he is telling.
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