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5.0 out of 5 stars
Big Bad Wolf is good, 26 Mar 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Big Bad Wolf Is Good (Hardcover)
Poor Wolf--he's so lonely! Nobody wants to be his friend. Not the ducklings, not the goslings, not the fuzzy yellow chicks. "Perhaps it's because I'm big and scary," he thinks. "Perhaps it's because I'm bad, bad, bad." Then he has a bright idea: What if he changes his ways and becomes good? What if he does a noble deed? But, none of the animals will listen when Wolf tries to tell them about his new plan. They just flee in terror, slamming the door right in his face. Then something really awful happens: one of the ducklings disappears and everybody thinks Wolf has eaten him all up. Can the Big Bad Wolf prove he didn't have duck for dinner--and bring the lost little baby safely home? A charming and delightfully fractured fairy tale about friendship, and a wonderful example for children that a person can change, with sweet and funny illustrations that will delight youngsters over and over again.
Anchorage School District librarian
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for 3 and 4 year olds!, 27 Mar 2011
By kamom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Big Bad Wolf Is Good (Hardcover)
We've had this book for several years, and the kids keep coming back to it as one of their absolute favorites. The story is about Big Bad Wolf wondering if the reason he has no friends is because he is "bad". He resolves to be "good" so that he can make friends. Understandably, the geese, ducks and chickens he tries to befriend are a bit reluctant to believe that the Big Bad Wolf is being genuine, and it is not until Big Bad Wolf performs a noble deed that he makes a friend. I really recommend this, especially for 3-4 year olds.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Big Bad Wolf's karma finally catches up with him., 28 Sep 2006
By Cady Hayden "Children's Book Author" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Big Bad Wolf Is Good (Hardcover)
With his oil painted canvas pictures, this is a book that expresses the greatness of imperfection. It's nice to see that all the lines don't have to be followed and all the areas don't have to be painted. It almost gives you that Winnie the Pooh's 100 Acre Wood feeling which is always a warm memory. The Big Bad Wolf makes a conscious decision to be good because being bad is so lonely. The poor wolf finds out that all the bad things he's done in his life are still following him regardless of his decision to be useful, good and do noble deeds. All the animals that he has been bad to assume that he is bad when they see him and don't give him a chance to prove he has really changed, they are all just afraid to get eaten. Thanks to a little lost duck, Big Bad Wolf proves to the mom and the duck's siblings that he can do good and requests, after he eats 11 cookies and drinks 3 cups of tea the mom duck offers him, that she call him the Big Good Wolf. This is a cute story about being a lonely bully who finally sees the error in his ways.
The one thing I did find strange about this story is that all the other characters besides the wolf are ducks and chicks. Isn't the Big Bad Wolf a pig terrorizer?