The Three Pigs

The Three Pigs by David Wiesner

Grade 3

Traditional Literature

Who am I? I huff and I puff and I’ll blow your house down. If I was a little piggy I would build my house in a cave with extra locks so the Big Bad Wolf could never come in and I would be able to protect my fellow friends and family. I would invite Little Mary and his lamb. Imagine if you were a little piggy, what would you build your house out of and who would you invite in it? Well when you read The Three Pigs, you will be able to see who they would invite in their house!

In the story, The Three Pigs by David Wiesser there were three pigs that were threatened by the Big Bad Wolf to blow their house down. Before the Wolf had a chance to blow down the last piggy’s house, the pigs went on an adventure. They wanted to pick their own ending to this story, so they went to other traditional stories and became part of their stories. The piggy’s ended taking out some characters from other stories to bring them back to little piggy’s brick home. They saved characters in other stories that were in harm and they all ended up safe and happy.

Characters: The three little pigs, the big bad wolf, diddle diddle cat, and the dragon.

            Setting: In the story books

Problem/Solution: The big bad wolf is trying to blow down the three little pigs houses.

Resolution: The pigs saved diddle diddle from his story along with the dragon who was about to be slayed. The pigs took them back to the brick house they built and the wolf couldn’t blow it down.

           

This story is traditional fiction because the three little pigs showed extreme bravery from the Big Bad Wolf, so in order to live they had to use extremely cleverness in building their homes! Throughout the story the little piggy’s were very funny and silly. As the story was going on, there would be little pop ups of the piggy’s making funny comments such as “Hey! He blew me right out of the story!” Furthermore, the language was very simple and clear. Instead of focusing on a place or time, the conflict started right away, for example on page three the Big Bad Wolf had already started eating the little pigs. The illustrations in the story were amazing! They were very descriptive and expressed what was happening in the story perfectly.

This book would be great to read to students because it expresses creativity in the story. The students are used to the folktale “three little pigs” but they would be amazed by the twist that this story offers. Since the three little pigs are so known about, the students will be excited to see that the pigs decided to make their own ending to the usual folktale. Not only will the story excite the students but the illustrations will as well. There are some pages that just have exceptional pictures and within those pictures have other characters from other well known stories, like “diddle diddle”.