Thursday, April 30, 2009

The Three Pigs (Caldecott Award)



There have been several variations written on the Three Little Pigs, and I will add this as one of my favorites! My daughter and I read this book together (which she used as an AR book), and we thought it was such a clever idea for a story.
This story begins as a typical Three Little Pigs fairy tale, but quickly surprises the reader by turning into a funny, quirky, adaptation of the story. The wolf blows the pigs right out of their story and into other fairy tale stories, where the pigs hep others who are in trouble.
The illustrator drew the pigs and other animals as if they were really "jumping" out of the story. Which added so much illusion and complemented what the story was trying say. My daughter thought the funny expressions the pigs had on their faces was hilarious, especially when they were flying on the paper airplane.
Another detail I liked was how the illustrator used so much white space, because I feel this depicted the idea of the pigs coming out of the story and going into the huge imaginary world of fairy tales.
Another detail I liked about the story was that the pigs rescued other animals from their fairy tales and they all lived happily ever after.
My daughter enjoyed the dialogue boxes, she thought it was fun to read them.
I would definitely recommend this book to others.

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