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The Three Little Pigs
by
Barry Moser
Description: For 2004, Tide-mark is pleased to offer four titles featuring the work of Barry Moser. As an illustrator, author, and designer, Barry Moser has worked on more than 250 books, including Moby Dick, Dante's Divine Comedy, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Moser's edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland won The American Book A...more
Hardcover, 32 pages
Published
April 1st 2001
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
(first published 2001)
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Genre: Traditional Literature; Picture Book
Summary: This is "The Three Little Pigs" with a twist, as the story is updated to reach today's society of students.
A. The author uses his illustrations to portray new pieces to and old tale.
B. The author and illustrator Barry Moser takes the traditional story of "The Three Little Pigs" and adds details to make the story more interesting and fresh. Some students may have read the tale of "The Three Little Pigs" and know that the wolf eats the pigs, how...more
Summary: This is "The Three Little Pigs" with a twist, as the story is updated to reach today's society of students.
A. The author uses his illustrations to portray new pieces to and old tale.
B. The author and illustrator Barry Moser takes the traditional story of "The Three Little Pigs" and adds details to make the story more interesting and fresh. Some students may have read the tale of "The Three Little Pigs" and know that the wolf eats the pigs, how...more
Genre: Traditional Picture book
Summary: Moser expands upon the original little pig story through a few new storylines and creative illustrations. He also adds craftiness to the third pig’s qualities. The first two pigs unfortunately are eaten, but through wit and quick thinking, the third pig outsmarts the wolf and ends up eating wolf stew for dinner.
Literary Critique: (a.) The illustrations add details to a classic story
(b.) Moser adds new modern touches to The Three Little Pigs story with the...more
Summary: Moser expands upon the original little pig story through a few new storylines and creative illustrations. He also adds craftiness to the third pig’s qualities. The first two pigs unfortunately are eaten, but through wit and quick thinking, the third pig outsmarts the wolf and ends up eating wolf stew for dinner.
Literary Critique: (a.) The illustrations add details to a classic story
(b.) Moser adds new modern touches to The Three Little Pigs story with the...more
Genre: Traditional Literature
Summary: Barry Moser retells the classic story, The Three Little Pigs with a twist. This story is not for the faint of heart, as the wolf starts out winning against the two little pigs, until he finds himself outwitted by the third.
Critique:
a. The watercolor pictures and how they depict the story.
b. Moser uses beautiful watercolor illustrations with light colors that give movement to the pictures. I loved this twist on the classic story, but the illustrations bring s...more
Summary: Barry Moser retells the classic story, The Three Little Pigs with a twist. This story is not for the faint of heart, as the wolf starts out winning against the two little pigs, until he finds himself outwitted by the third.
Critique:
a. The watercolor pictures and how they depict the story.
b. Moser uses beautiful watercolor illustrations with light colors that give movement to the pictures. I loved this twist on the classic story, but the illustrations bring s...more
Genre: Traditional Literature Picture Book
The three little pigs and wolf are at it again! The wolf is hungry and has a craving for pork. This classic story is taken one step further by the author. The wolf is taken for a ride by the smartest pig of them all. Will the wolf ever learn his lesson?
a.) An area for critique for this book is the author’s style in creating a fractured fairy tale.
b.) I understand the goal of this book, which is to create a twist on a classic tale of the three little pigs...more
The three little pigs and wolf are at it again! The wolf is hungry and has a craving for pork. This classic story is taken one step further by the author. The wolf is taken for a ride by the smartest pig of them all. Will the wolf ever learn his lesson?
a.) An area for critique for this book is the author’s style in creating a fractured fairy tale.
b.) I understand the goal of this book, which is to create a twist on a classic tale of the three little pigs...more
I'm not a fan of the version where the wolf eats the first two pigs but the third pig eats the wolf because then it's like the third pig is eating his brothers. I know it is probably not like that but to me it is. This book is one of those.
The Three Little Pigs is a classical children's book. This book explores different ways in which three little pigs set out to build their own houses when the Momma pig has sent them off. This book draws the imagination and creativity of young children to try and follow the way these pigs attempt to build houses. Of course we all know houses cannot be built from straw or sticks, children use their imagination to picture a straw or stick house. In this book the pigs and wolf have been given the ab...more
Tags: fairy tale, pigs, traditional, humor, watercolor, picture book, folk lore
Humorous retelling of the traditional tale of the three pigs. Humor is found in the illustrations, not in the text. Pigs and wolf have human gestures and characteristics.
Illustrations are watercolor with text along bottom of page and lots of white space used to keep focus on story. Great details in illustrations are aimed at adults. No notes on sources or citations as to what sources he used for the story.
"The Three...more
Humorous retelling of the traditional tale of the three pigs. Humor is found in the illustrations, not in the text. Pigs and wolf have human gestures and characteristics.
Illustrations are watercolor with text along bottom of page and lots of white space used to keep focus on story. Great details in illustrations are aimed at adults. No notes on sources or citations as to what sources he used for the story.
"The Three...more
1. Traditional Literature
2. This is the classic tale of the three little pigs that all left their mother’s house going in different directions to build their life and home. Two of the pigs are gobbled up by the big, bad wolf. While the third pig outsmarts him and gets to have wolf stew for dinner.
3. Critique
a. Originality
b. This is always a children’s favorite. The use of repetition is great for the kid’s to interact during the read-aloud. I enjoyed the author making it his own by delving more...more
2. This is the classic tale of the three little pigs that all left their mother’s house going in different directions to build their life and home. Two of the pigs are gobbled up by the big, bad wolf. While the third pig outsmarts him and gets to have wolf stew for dinner.
3. Critique
a. Originality
b. This is always a children’s favorite. The use of repetition is great for the kid’s to interact during the read-aloud. I enjoyed the author making it his own by delving more...more
Three little pigs: this book starts out when the three little pigs set off on their own; the three little pigs build houses but the big bad wolfe tries to blow down their houses and eat them. But the two little pigs brothers house saves them because it’s a brick house and not a house made out of sticks or hay/straw. The illustrations in this book were great; and I would recommend this book to fairytale lovers. And also to people who love to read classic books like this one.
This verison of The Three Little Pigs is retold and illustrated by Barry Moser. The story differs from what I remember in that the first two brothers get eaten by the Big Bad Wolf. The story also has some extended scenes with the third brother and the wolf. In the end, the pig with the brick house still ends up outsmarting the wolf. The illustrations are realistic and the characters show a lot of expression.
Published: 2001, Little Brown & Company
Age: 4-8
A fractured fairy tale that is really gruesome. It's Valentine's Day for some reason when mama pig decides her pigs must go out into the world. The wolf is huge and it eats up the first 2 pigs. He is satiated next to a bottle of Piga pepper sauce, Bubba's bbq sauce, paper towels and a bucket of bones. The third pig tricks the wolf 3 times before he climbs down the chimney and into the pot of boiling water. The 3rd pig is shown with a deranged ex...more
Age: 4-8
A fractured fairy tale that is really gruesome. It's Valentine's Day for some reason when mama pig decides her pigs must go out into the world. The wolf is huge and it eats up the first 2 pigs. He is satiated next to a bottle of Piga pepper sauce, Bubba's bbq sauce, paper towels and a bucket of bones. The third pig tricks the wolf 3 times before he climbs down the chimney and into the pot of boiling water. The 3rd pig is shown with a deranged ex...more
This was a great book with some great illustration. I really liked the pictures and after completing the story I decided to look at the book again but this time I did not read it but instead just viewed the pictures one by one. This would be a great novel for any child who enjoys pictures so I would recommend this to any child or adult.
I thought that this book was a repulsive way to look at the story of he three little pigs. The wolf eating the first two pigs, I mean that happens in every day life, but then for the third pig to eat the wolf. That just makes me feel like then he is eating his brothers. YUCK!! I personally wouldn't use this book in a classroom.
The Three Little Pigs by Barry Moser is a witty classic retold by colorful and humorous pictures. In this fairly tale, children learn that every mistake can be made into a learning mistake. The story also teaches children the importance of team work.
This is a very nice retelling of the three little pigs. The wolf is quite gruesome, but that's ok - the piggies aren't that cute and cuddly either. The illustration of the wolf huffing and puffing is excellent.
Mar 27, 2013
Paula
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
1st-grade,
eating,
building,
death,
animals,
fairytale-folktale,
repetition,
humor,
imagination,
family,
self-confidence,
story-time
The original story about the three little pigs. In this story the pigs do get eaten by the big bad wolf and in the end the third pig eats the wolf. Not for the younger kids
Who doesn't love this story? It would be a great book to do an entire lesson on. Students could build straw houses as crafts, write an alternative ending, ect.
This book tells the traditional story of the three little pigs with a little twist. There are some extra events that happen in this story.
The story we all know, with a few little twists. The Three Little Pigs by Barry Moser is full of humorous, colorful watercolor illustrations. The expressions on the pigs' faces are sure to bring a giggle to every child.
Used for "Cheep, Oink, and Moo: Chicken, Pork, and Beef" Storytime-April, 2010.
Used for "Cheep, Oink, and Moo: Chicken, Pork, and Beef" Storytime-April, 2010.
Nov 06, 2012
Tyler Roman
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I liked how this book built upon the original story of the three little pigs.
Slightly fractured fairytale. Enjoyed the twist.
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This book can be used to teach about classic literature.
The illustrations are great.
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