The Three Pigs

The Three Pigs

Author	David Wiesner
Illustrator	David Wiesner
Country	United States
Genre	Children's picture book
Publisher	Clarion/Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	2001
ISBN	978-0-618-00701-1
OCLC	45002235
Dewey Decimal	[E] 21
LC Class	PZ7.W6367 Th 2001

The Three Pigs is a children's picture book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published in 2001, the book is based on the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs, though in this story they step out of their own tale and wander into others, depicted in different illustration styles. Wiesner won the 2002 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations, Wiesner's second of three such medals.^[1]

Plot

The story starts with three pigs who decided to build a house. However, two of the three pigs love to play. The other is very responsible and hardworking. He advised the other two pigs to build a good house in case the wolf comes. The first pig, the laziest, made his house out of straw. The second pig, who is not very responsible made his house out of sticks because it was easier and faster. The third pig, who is hard-working made his house out of bricks. Therefore, the third one took longer to finish up his house and the other two made fun of him. According to Amazon Editorial Reviews, when the wolf approaches the first house and blows it in, he blows the pig right out of the story frame. Then the wolf ate the pig up. "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."

Trivia

The flying fish picture is a parody of Wiesner's first Caldecott Medal-winning picture book Tuesday.

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