Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories
Children’s picture books

THE TRUE STORY OF THE 3 LITTLE PIGS

Smith Lane Jon Scieszka

A spoof on the three little pigs story, this time told from the wolf's point of view. Lane Smith also illustrated Hallowe'en ABC which was one of The New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year.

You thought you knew the story of the “The Three Little Pigs”… You thought wrong.
In this hysterical and clever fracture fairy tale picture book that twists point of view and perspective, young readers will finally hear the other side of the story of “The Three Little Pigs.”

Available products
Book Published 2023-10-11 by Viking
Book Published 2023-04-17 by Viking

Comments

Chinese complex: 3 & 3 International Education Institute ; Chinese simplified: Beijing Cheerful ; French: Nathan ; Italian: Zoolibri ; Japanese: Iwanami Shoten ; Korean: Borim ; Portuguese (Brazil): Companhia das Letras ; Russian: Kariera ; Slovak: Albatros ; Spanish & Catalan: Thule Ediciones

Smith's highly imaginative watercolors eschew realism, further updating the tale, though some may find their urbane stylization and intentionally static quality mystifyingly adult. Designed with uncommon flair, this alternative fable is both fetching and glib.

In this humorous story, Alexander T. Wolf tells his own outlandish version of what really happens during his encounter with the three pigs…. Smith's simplistic and wacky illustrations add to the effectiveness of this fractured fairy tale.