The Three Pigs by David Wiesner is not the same three little pigs story we all know and love. In fact, it is very different. I picked out this book thinking it was the same story, but I was sadly mistaken. The book starts out the same way the the three little pigs starts out. One pig makes a house of straw and his house is blown down and then all the sudden the pig appears "outside" of the story with word bubbles coming out of his mouth like a cartoon sketch and from there on was confused till the end of the story, which still does not make sense to me.
I really wanted to enjoy this book, but I kept finding myself more and more confused as I turned the pages. There was not really a plot behind it and it was mostly focused on the pigs trying to rewrite the original story, but just not a way the reader could follow. I feel like a student may find this story confusing like I did, but maybe that is just my own opinion.
The one thing that kept me from closing this book half way through were the illustrations. The pigs were life like and the pictures were really mesmerizing. For me, they were really the only thing I enjoyed about this story. I would take the original over this book any day, but I would not rule out this book for all teachers. The book is a winner of the caldecott medal so there is obviously something great there that I am just not seeing. I would say give it a read and see what you think, but for me it is sadly not a book I will run back to read.
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