The three pigs

 

Title: The Three Pigs

Author/Illustrator: David Wiesner

Award: Caldecott Award Winner

Age K-11

This is one great book both for children and adults and probably my favorite book this semester. The story is not The Three Little Pigs that we all know so well, but a postmodern version called The Three Pigs that expands laterally and not chronologically. The Three Little Pigs is a traditional modern tale whose moral is to postpone pleasure and protect yourself. The characters are flat, the story predictable, and, once you know it, dull. Here, in the postmodern version, the characters are multidimensional and the story not predictable. In fact, the pigs fall out of the text, complain about being eaten by the wolf, go on a paper airplane ride, and meet up with the cat in the fiddle and a dragon.  The illustrations in this book really stand out and are what make this book great.  Children’s imagination can really start to blossom while reading this book.