Wolf unjustly framed? It’s up to the reader to decide. The Pigs, in comparison to the gentlemanly wolf, are rude and downright unneighbourly. If cheeseburgers were cute, folks would probably think you were Big and Bad too.” “Hey, it’s not my fault wolves eat cute little animals like bunnies and sheep and pigs. Wolf is depicted as bespectacled, well-mannered and timid – though he does give a spirited defense of the carnivorous diet: He is shipped off to the Pig Penitentiary, but to this day he insists he was framed.Ī very funny story with hilarious illustrations by Lane Smith. The third pig calls the police and by the time the newspapers get through with the story, everyone thinks the wolf is Big, Bad and Guilty. Satisfying both as a story and as an exploration of story, The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified. The same thing happens with the stick house pig. Andersen Press Limited, Juvenile Fiction - 40 pages. “It seemed like a shame to leave a perfectly good ham dinner lying there in the straw. As he surveys the destruction, he spots the first little pig, dead as a doornail. Unfortunately he has a bad cold, and their houses are just so flimsy… The Wolf accidentally sneezes the straw house down. You see, he wanted to bake a cake for his dear, sick granny, but he was out of sugar so went to borrow some from his neighbours the pigs. The famous story is retold from Alexander T. Next: The Three Pigs by David Wiesner (another weird take on the story) The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon by Mini Grey (a modern rewrite of a nursery rhyme with lots of crime and violence)Īlso by this author and illustrator: The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales Squids Will Be Squids Math Curse Science Verse Interests: twisted fairy tales, crime and punishment, wolves

David wiesner's the three pigs