The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig | 
“'We shall build a house so strong that the big bad pig won't be able to blow it down,' said the first little wolf.“
“'We shall build a house so strong that the big bad pig won't be able to blow it down,' said the first little wolf.“
This book can be used to discuss character traits and story elements or to introduce a unit on fractured fairy tales where students create their versions of classic stories. it's also a great book choice for teaching compare-and-contrast activities or exploring problem-solving skills in the classroom.
so-soThis book is a humorous twist on the classic fairy tale genre, first published in 1993. This award-winning picture book, which received the Parent's Choice Gold Award, follows three little wolves as they build increasingly strong homes to protect themselves from the huffing and puffing of a big, bad pig. With its playful language and surprising role reversal, the story teaches themes of resilience, creativity, and nonviolence.
pickI'm not really sure what the moral of the story here is. Certainly, I'm concerned that the wolves just forgave the pig without the pig apologizing or providing redress. On the other hand, I was delighted by how surprising the book was. I mean really, I should have seen the dynamite coming and YET. Trivizas as a children's book author is an odd duck, since his day job is as a legal scholar in criminology. 😵
They offered him tea and strawberries and wolfberries, and asked him to stay with them as long as he wished
This is a funny and different version of the story. It would be good to use when exploring different fairytales.
pickThis version of the traditional story totally flips the characters around. In this version the pig is the villain. The wolves go out on their own and make their different houses which the pig destroys. Eventually they make a house that pig enjoys, and they become friends.
pickThe Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugne Trivizas and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury is a TL, that would be great as a RT, it won Parents' Choice Gold Award. This is a great book that reversed the telling of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The Big Bad Pig manages to break the first two houses that the wolves built together, but the third house was built of flowers each side a different kind, the Pig started to blow but was
pickEnjoyed this retelling of the three little pigs' story.
