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Filled with Lane Smith's signature wacky art and Jon Scieszka's signature over-the-top humour, this innovative picture book lets the Big Bad Wolf tell his side of the story.
Good For:
Caldecott Artists, Fractured Fairy Tales, Humorous Adaptations of Classic Tales, Laugh-Out-Loud Picture Books, Reading Books From a Different Character's Perspective
Topics and Themes:
Retellings, Adaptations, Fractured Fairy Tales, Wolves, Pigs, News
You thought you knew the story of the "The Three Little Pigs"--you thought wrong.
Everybody thinks the Big Bad Wolf was nothing but a pig-hating predator. But really, the whole episode was just one big misunderstanding. Now it's time to let him tell the story, and this famous fairy tale will never be the same.
All that Alexander T. Wolf wanted was some sugar to finish the cake he was baking for his sweet granny's birthday. He went out to borrow a pinch from his neighbours, but all he could find was a silly pig in a flimsy straw house. All of sudden a serious sneeze blew the whole thing down, and left the piggy within as dead as a doornail. The wolf didn't mean it, so why should he let a perfectly good ham dinner go to waste? It wasn't his fault that the first little pig built his house out of straw!
Al has a good excuse for each piggy encounter that went so wrong, but guess whose story the police and the papers believe?
Eager to restore his good name and set the story straight, the so-called Big Bad Wolf narrates this classic satirical tale.