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The three pigs / David Wiesner.
The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.
Record details
- ISBN: 0618007016
- Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 30 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, 2001.
Content descriptions
| Awards Note: | Caldecott Medal book, 2002. |
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| Subject: | Swine > Fiction. Characters and characteristics in literature > Fiction. |
| Topic Heading: | Three little pigs (Tale) |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | E WIESN D (Text) | 33126008496022 | Easy | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | E WIESN D (Text) | 33126020299933 | Easy | Available | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2001 April
K-Gr 6-In Tuesday (Clarion, 1991), Wiesner demonstrated that pigs could fly. Here, he shows what happens when they take control of their story. In an L. Leslie Brooke sort of style (the illustrations are created through a combination of watercolor, gouache, colored inks, and pencils), the wolf comes a-knocking on the straw house. When he puffs, the pig gets blown "right out of the story." (The double spread contains four panels on a white background; the first two follow the familiar story line, but the pig falls out of the third frame, so in the fourth, the wolf looks quite perplexed.) So it goes until the pigs bump the story panels aside, fold one with the wolf on it into a paper airplane, and take to the air. Children will delight in the changing perspectives, the effect of the wolf's folded-paper body, and the whole notion of the interrupted narrative. Wiesner's luxurious use of white space with the textured pigs zooming in and out of view is fresh and funny. They wander through other stories-their bodies changing to take on the new style of illustration as they enter the pages-emerging with a dragon and the cat with a fiddle. The cat draws their attention to a panel with a brick house, and they all sit down to soup, while one of the pigs reconstructs the text. Witty dialogue and physical comedy abound in this inspired retelling of a familiar favorite.-Wendy Lukehart, Dauphin County Library, Harrisburg, PA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.