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The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Paperback)

by Eugene Trivizas (Author), Helen Oxenbury (Illustrator)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 32 pages
  • Publisher: Mammoth; New edition edition (25 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749725052
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749725051
  • Product Dimensions: 27 x 21.5 x 0.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 286,750 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Never mind the other incarnations of this tale - classic, fractured, rapped; this inversion will have children giggling from the outset. Sent into the world by a mother who wears hair curlers, three "cuddly" wolves build a brick house, then try to fend off a snarling thug of a pig who demolishes it with a sledgehammer. Their next place is concrete; the pig has a pneumatic drill. They construct a metal fortress, complete with steel chains and Plexiglas; the pig goes for dynamite. Then they build a house of flowers and the pig pulls a "Ferdinand," not only reforming but making it a happy menage a quatre. This latter-day plea for a peaceable kingdom reckons once and for all with the question at the core of this familiar tale - why must pigs and wolves be enemies? Oxenbury provides dauntingly well-executed watercolors, offering such charming contrasts as an angular modernistic concrete home in an otherwise pastoral setting. (Kirkus Reviews)

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This is a reversal of the traditional story. It describes how three little wolves find themselves terrorized and their houses destroyed by a mean-minded pig, with a nasty line in destructive technological hardware.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, 1 Nov 1999
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A very funny and lively book, loved by every child (from 1 to 10 )that I have ever read it to. It turns the traditional story on its head and has a truely happy ending. Excellent illustrations. It can be read over and over again. Everyone should read it. Great for school, where I have used it a lot (loads of work flows out of it, I did a class assembly on it) and great to cuddle up and read at home.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An action-packed subversion of the three pigs. Great!!, 7 Mar 2005
By ELH Browning "Esther-Lou" (Kingston Bagpuize, Oxon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Hardcover)
We have had this story so many times from the library that I have now got to buy a copy. It's based on a reversal of the story of the three little pigs, a subversion which the children think is funny to start with, but there's more to it than that. Three little wolves build successively more secure houses with increasingly interesting building materials to keep themselves safe from the Big Bad Pig, and the pig uses a sledgehammer, a pneumatic drill and finally explosives to destroy them. This whole process is fascinating to a three year old boy. After this escalation, there's then a lovely peaceful end to the story where the wolves realize that super-secure construction isn't the answer and try a different approach involving sweet-scented flowers which reform the pig and he moves in with the wolves. There are surely lessons on life to be drawn here but for the children it's just a great action-packed story with additional fun to be had spotting the teapot throughout the book. Helen Oxenbury's illustrations are lovely - with a touch of menace in the earlier pictures and lovely colourful jubilant ones at the end.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars love it - a must have, 11 Aug 2000
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children find building sites facsinating enough, now they get to see where reinforced steel chains and slurry cement really come in useful. had me and me 4 year old in stiches! and a happy ending, a few deep breathes pretending to smell the flowers, and everyone gets a good nights sleep. certainly takes the spook out of wolves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars So brilliant!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great take on old tale
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