Timeless story.

I would use this in my classroom to compare different stories of the Three Little Pigs. I would have the students compare and contrast the differences and similarites.

-Totally classic story, nothing new, but with that long ending where the pig wins by trickery rather than by building a strong sturdy house
-No connection made about survival or hard work
-Nothing of value to teach

This folktale orginated in England. It's a story about three little pigs who each build a home and the big, bad wolf tries to get them. This book is much more graphic and different from the version I remember being told. The wolf eats the first two pigs and at the end, the last pig ends up eating the wolf. Some parents may want to check out which folktale version they are getting before they purchase it for their child, as some may not agree with it.

This version has a few extra details I'd never come across before in this old story: the wolf inviting the third pig to go to the fair and turnip-picking, all in an attempt to get him out of his brick house.

This is the classic Three Little Pigs story to a T.

The author doesn't skirt around the original story. Nope, in this version (just as in the original), the wolf eats the first two pigs. Well, why not? That's what wolves *do*. People eat pigs as well! And the pig ends up eating the wolf at the end. Well, why not? Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and I gotta watch that big bad wolf die.

My nieces love this book. I do too :)

Title: Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf
Author: Glen Rounds
Illustrator: Glen Rounds
Genre: Fable
Theme(s): Being mean doesn’t get you very far. Be smart about your actions.
Opening line/sentence: “One morning a long time ago an old sow called her three little pigs to her and said, “I have something to tell you.’”
Brief Book Summary: Three little pigs all built themselves houses. One pig made their house out of straw, one out of sticks, and the last out of bricks. A big, bad, wold came to all of their houses and blew all of them down besides the pig with the house made out of bricks.
Professional Recommendation/Review #1: Publishers Weekly
This forceful presentation brings added pizzazz to an old favorite. In a style similar to that of Rounds's last two folk-inspired retellings ( I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly ; Old MacDonald Had a Farm ), his vigorous artwork--a mix of broad black outlines and strongly textured pastels against abundant white space--gives the animal cast a winning immediacy. (Since the characters are not anthropomorphized, however, this realistic wolf may alarm little ones--the entire tale, in fact, is somewhat more frightening in Rounds's version.) The language is spare and direct; the textual mix of small and large typefaces adds to the striking visuals. This energetic interpretation may well win new fans for this talented artist and storyteller. Ages 3-8.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Professional Recommendation/Review #2: School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 3-- No revisionist tinkering here, but a trim and straightforward retelling of the tried and true. Only a few touches hint at contemporary sensitivities: the mother pig assures her piglets of her love before sending them away, and the brick house appropriated by the third pig is, we are assured, long abandoned. The tale's essential toughness remains: the wolf eats the first two pigs and is himself eaten by the third. Besides the huffing and puffing part, this version includes the lesser-known episodes in which the wolf vainly tries to lure the third pig out, by means of ``friendly'' invitations. The illustrations are vintage Rounds. The wolf is a scruffy, emaciated, hangdog sort, not likely to inspire any nightmares. The pigs lack character, but in Rounds's view they are clearly supporting players: it's the wolf's show. Colors are muted, background and detail are minimal: the book's high energy level comes from Rounds's galvanic, attenuated line and the capital letters used for all crucial words and phrases (useful both for dramatic reading-aloud and beginning readers). Resisting the trend toward the genteel, Rounds again votes for the fun in folktales. --Patricia Dooley, University of Washington, Seattle
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Response to Two Professional Reviews: The reviews seem to think that this is a great story about a favorite, popular fable. The language seems to be age-appropriate and it is great for a read aloud. The illustrations also seem very plausible.
Evaluation of Literary Elements: The pigs and wolf are acting like people. They're not acting as animals, they're acting as humans. The conflict in the story is that the little pigs houses keep getting blown down by the wolf.
Consideration of Instructional Application: Make a felt wolf, pigs, and different types of houses. Have the students tell the story with the felt or move the felt as you read the story to them. This is interactive, fun, and helps children with comprehension.

Was excited to see what Glen Rounds would bring to the table with this story since he leans a bit more towards putting his own spin on the stories that he is telling. Unfortunately, though, this is wasn't the case for the most part.

First of all the title is way too long while many readers whether they are young or old are already used to the story's characters thus don't need all the primary ones pointed out. Secondly the majority of the story being told to the read was almost word-for-word copy of the story being told in all the other versions that have been presented and it was only towards the attempted capture of the third pig did the story actually open it to more than a basic telling. Furthermore the last little piggy appears to be more resourceful, more knowledgeable and also a wise little piggy compared to all his other counterparts in various re-tellings.

The illustrations are clearly Glen Rounds - colored dully and with the wolf seeming more like a scraggly coyote found in some of his wild horse books. Upon closer examination the wolf itself seems like a cartoonish monster with extreme emphasis of physical traits that would now be considered probably politically incorrect while the look of the pig on the last page was chilling thus providing the book with a dark end. But even for the weird character portrayals I must say that I did like the forms of the houses made out of piles, which is in its own right a bit more creative than in other tellings.

All in all it was a decent retelling of this fairy tale but not the best thus I would probably steer clear of re-reading it in the future if I were to come across it again.

Well that got dark. In this version, the first two pigs are eaten up after the wolf blows down their houses. At the end, the third pig in the brick house, eats the wolf after he falls into his boiling pot of soup. Don't think I will be using this version at storytime any time soon...

This book is pretty good not the best but prtty good...

This is a story I have memorized. I have read it too my sister since she was 1 and played out the parts as she grew older. My mother saw this as a great story and I showed lots of skills reading it. So She put me in a 4-H reading class. I did great but lost because I was practicing too good of posture.

it was an o book i don't like how the big bad wolf would them