The Three Pigs

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The Three Pigs

If you have a sophisticated reader/listener, this is the version for you. Your child should know the original story, and then he/she can really appreciate what Mr. Wiesner does with the pigs. They seem to be escaping out of the story through the pages. What imagination! This book was the 2002 winner of the Caldecott Medal. I love it!

Caldecott picture book imagination pigs read aloud with 3s, 4s, 5s

Preschooler reluctant listener

40 pages 978-0618007011 Ages 3-6

Keywords: pigs, classic, Caldecott Medal, 3 year old, 4 year old, 5 year old

******* This Caldecott Medal-winning picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf’s huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of pure imagination. The transition signals the start of a freewheeling adventure with characteristic David Wiesner effects—cinematic flow, astonishing shifts of perspective, and sly humor, as well as episodes of flight. Satisfying both as a story and as an exploration of the nature of story, The Three Pigs takes visual narrative to a new level. Dialogue balloons, text excerpts, and a wide variety of illustration styles guide the reader through a dazzling fantasy universe to the surprising and happy ending. Fans of Tuesday’s frogs and Sector 7’s clouds will be captivated by old friends—the Three Pigs of nursery fame and their companions—in a new guise.---from the publisher

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