The
Three Pigs
by David Wiesner
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Once upon a time three pigs built three houses, out of straw, sticks,
and bricks. Along came a wolf, who huffed and puffed... So, you think you
know the rest? Think again. With David Wiesner at the helm, it's never
safe to assume too much. When the wolf approaches the first house, for
example, and blows it in, he somehow manages to blow the pig right out
of the story frame. The text continues on schedule--"...and ate the pig
up"--but the perplexed expression on the wolf's face as he looks in vain
for his ham dinner is priceless. One by one, the pigs exit the fairy tale's
border and set off on an adventure of their own. Folding a page of their
own story into a paper airplane, the pigs fly off to visit other storybooks,
rescuing about-to-be-slain dragons and luring the cat and the fiddle out
of their nursery rhyme.
Wiesner, Caldecott Medal recipient for Tuesday, and Caldecott
Honor winner for both Sector 7 and Free Fall, prefers not
to wait around until pigs fly. He gives them wings (or paper airplanes)
and sets them on their way! In his latest flight of fancy, Wiesner uses
shifting illustration styles and fonts to startle complacent readers into
an imaginary world even as they ponder the conventional structure of story.
His trademark crafty humor and skewed perspectives will tickle readers
pink (even the nonporcine variety)! (Ages 4 and older) --Emilie Coulter,
Amazon.com
Hardcover - 40 pages (April 2001)
Clarion Books; ISBN: 0618007016
Tuesday
by David Wiesner
(Hardcover - April 1991)
Sector
7 (Caldecott Honor Books, 2000)
by David Wiesner (Illustrator)
(School & Library Binding - September 1999)
Free
Fall
by David Wiesner
(Paperback - September 1991)
June
29, 1999
by David Wiesner
(Paperback - September 1995)
Hurricane
by David Wiesner
(Paperback - September 1992)
Night
of the Gargoyles
by Eve Bunting, David Wiesner (Illustrator)
(School & Library Binding - October 1994)
Owly
by Mike Thaler, David Wiesner (Illustrator)
(Paperback - April 1998)
David
Wiesner's Tuesday/Book and Frog : Book & Doll Gift Box
by David Wiesner
(Paperback - May 1995)
Firebrat
by Nancy Willard, David Wiesner (Illustrator) (Library Binding - August
1988)
The
Rainbow People
by Laurence Yep, David Wiesner (Illustrator)
(Paperback - August 1992)
Man
from the Sky
by Avi, David Wiesner (Illustrator)
(Paperback - September 1992)
The Best of Roald Dahl
by Roald Dahl
Listed under Roald Dahl Books
