About this title: You might think you know the story of the three little pigs and their encounters with the "big, bad wolf," but you don't know the whole story until you read this book, the only one written by Alexander T. Wolf himself. Here Alexander (Al to his friends) states his case, explaining that he was simply attempting to borrow a cup of sugar from his neighbors--who just happens to be pigs. When Al's allergies act up, he sneezes, accidentally blowing down the houses of the first two pigs (and, really, as he points out, what did they expect--they built their houses out of straw and sticks). The force ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Date Published: 1948
ISBN-13:9780590443579ISBN:0590443577
Description: Good. 60-V-Add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780590443579ISBN:0590443577
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1991-01
ISBN-13:9780590443579ISBN:0590443577
Description: Fair. The cover has been creased Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic
Date Published: 1991-01
ISBN-13:9780590443579ISBN:0590443577
Description: Good. Every heavytail order includes with a sweet! We carefully hand clean and reinspect each and every item we ship. Our quality control process ensures items to be in the condition described or better. Heavytail is determined to earn your repeat business through old fashioned customer service. We love international orders. read more
Description: Lane Smith. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. softcover, pages clean and tight, no stains, no writing, no fading, no tears, beautiful color illustrations read more
"Summary: There has obviously been some kind of mistake," writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he's doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the "real" story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens... from the wolf's perspective. This poor, much maligned wolf has gotten a bad rap. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with a sneezy cold, innocently trying to borrow a cup of sugar to make his granny a cake. Is it his fault those ham dinners--rather, pigs--build such flimsy homes? Sheesh. This 10th-anniversary edition of Jon Scieszka's New York Times Best Book of the Year, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, includes a special, impassioned letter from prisoner A. Wolf himself and a snappy new jacket by Caldecott Honor artist Lane Smith, whose quirky perspectives still color the illustrations throughout. As with The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, the collaborators take a classic story and send it through the wisecracker machine, much to the glee of kids young and old.
Curricular Uses: This would be a wonderful read aloud for children who are familiar with the original story of the Three Little Pigs. This would also be a fun independent read for the older elementary children.
Social Issues: The wolf is considered the bad person in the story and he wants everyone to see how he saw it.
Literary Elements: This book is told in first person narration from the wolf's perspective. Conflict between the wolf and the rest of society.
Illustrations & Text: The illustrations are wonderful and could be read through them, only if the children are familiar with the original story. However, the text does give a little more information that would be relevant to the entire story."
"True Story of the Three Little Pigs By, Jon Scieszka 1. Brief Summary This story is of a wolf who recounts on the day that became known as the story of the "big bad wolf and the poor three little pigs". The wolf tells what really happened on this day and explains how this whole thing was a big misunderstanding. 2. Potential Audience The genre is of a fractional fairy tale, and comical. The reading levels are transitional to fluent reader. 3. Specific Curricular Uses Read aloud and reader's theatre would be appropriate, because it is such a familiar story, to change it would be fun for the children. Independent reading for the more fluent readers. 4. Social Issues the book addresses This book demonstrates many different social issues within the text. Some of the more prevalent ones are biased, discrimination, and rumors, stereotypes. 5. Specific Literary Elements the book demonstrates This story is told in a first person narrative, which is told through the wolfs perspective. There are embedded stories, because there are many stories among the one text and several themes. Not only is the story about a wolf needing sugar to make a cake for his granny, but he is also tempted to eat the pigs once he finds them dead. 6. Interactions and Counteractions of text and image; How does the illustration help tell the story. The illustrations second what the wolf is telling the reader, but do not give anymore information to the reader than what the text already does."
"This story tells the classic tale of "The Three Little Pigs" from the viewpoint of The Big, Bad Wolf. Only, as the wolf tells it, he isn't so big and bad after all. In his mind, all those "bad" things we all THINK happened were really just the result of a series of misunderstandings and, because of these misunderstandings, the wolf now finds himself behind bars.
This book seems like it would work with students in Grades 2 and up. It Would be great if you were doing a unit on multiple viewpoints. First, students could read the traditional version. Then, they could read this one and we could have a discussion of what was the same in both stories and what was different. We could maybe even extend the unit by having students write throe own versions of what they think happened."
"1. The wolf recounts what he believes really happened. The wolf offers his perspective on the whole ordeal; which he believes was really a huge misunderstanding. Alexander Wolf is trying to set the record straight.
2. reading levels: transitional to fluent. Genre: Fractured Fairytale.
3. Specific curricular uses: read aloud and independent reading
4. Social issues the book addresses: bias, discrimination, and rumors
5. Specific literary elements the book demonstrates. Uses 1st person narrative. Story is told according to the wolf. The embedded story in this tale is the fact that the wolf was actually trying to bake a birthday cake for his dear old granny. This is what ultimately led him to call upon the pigs to borrow a cup of sugar.
6. Interactions & counteractions of the text & image. The illustrations merely support the text. The illustrations second what the wolf is telling the reader. Illustrations provide no new information for the reader to know."
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