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'Designed with uncommon flair,' said PW, this 'gaily newfangled version of the classic tale' takes
sides with the villain. 'Imaginative watercolors eschew realism, further updating the tale.' A
Spanish-language reprint will be issued simultaneously ($4.99, -055758-X). Ages 3-8. Copyright
1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Ages 6-9.Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the
Three Little Pigs (1989) turned the favorite porkers' story upside-down by allowing the grossly
misjudged wolf to tell his side of the story. Wiesner's latest is a post-modern fantasy for young
readers that takes Scieszka's fragmentation a step further: it not only breaks apart and deliciously
reinvents the pigs' tale, it invites readers to step beyond the boundaries of story and picture book
altogether.The book begins predictably: the three pigs set out to seek their fortune, and when the
first pig builds a house of straw, the wolf blows it down. Here's when the surprises start. The wolf
blows the pig right out of the picture and out of the story itself. In the following frames, the story
continues as expected: the wolf eats the pig and moves on to the other houses. But the pictures
no longer match up. Frames show the bewildered wolf searching hungrily through the rubble as
first one, then all the pigs escape the illustrations and caper out into open space with the loose
pages of the wolf's tale swirling around them. After fashioning a paper airplane from a passing
page, the emancipated pigs soar off on a sort of space flight through blank white spreads,
ultimately discovering other picture-book 'planets' along the way. Finally, the pigs wander through
a near-city of illustrated pages, each suggesting its own story. Joined by the nursery rhyme Cat
and Fiddle and a fairy-tale dragon, the pigs find and reassemble the pages to their own story and
reenter to find the wolf still at the door. In the end, the story breaks down altogether, as the wolf
flees, the text breaks apart, letters spill into a waiting basket, and the animals settle down to a bowl
of . . . alphabet soup instead of wolf stew.Wiesner uses shifting, overlapping artistic styles to help
young readers envision the pigs' fantastical voyage. The story begins in a traditional, flat, almost
old-fashioned illustrative style. But once the first pig leaps from the picture's frame, he becomes
more shaded, bristly with texture, closer to a photographic image. As the pigs travel and enter
each new story world, they take on the style of their surroundings--the candy-colored nursery
rhyme, the almost comic-book fairy tale--until, in the end, they appear as they did at the beginning.
Chatty dialogue balloons also help guide children through the story, providing most of the text
once the characters leave the conventional story frames, and much of the humor ('Let's get out of
here!' yells one pig as he leaps from a particularly saccharine nursery world). Despite all these
clues, children may need help understanding what's happening, particularly with the subtle, openended
conclusion. But with their early exposure to the Internet and multimedia images, many kids

will probably be comfortable shifting between frames and will follow along with delight. Wiesner
has created a funny, wildly imagined tale that encourages kids to leap beyond the familiar, to think
critically about conventional stories and illustration, and perhaps to flex their imaginations and
create wonderfully subversive versions of their own stories. Carolyn PhelanCopyright ©
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