Publication Date: 2016
ISBN: 978-1-338-31590-5
This story begins where the original tale left
off: we see the wolf as he is carted off
to prison to pay for his crimes, and the three little pigs are hailed as
heroes! This is the life they were meant
to live: greeting fans and fighting
crime. Until one day, the wolf escapes
and beats them at their own game. Using
stolen bricks from all over Fairyland, the wolf builds a huge wall around the
houses of the three Superpigs and captures one, then two, and prepares them for
dinner. Just in time, the always-wise
Superpig 3 saves the day by arming his brothers with their jet-packs, and the
brothers escape, leaving the wolf trapped in a prison of his own making. Fairyland is saved once again and its residents
stand amazed when they learn that pigs really do fly.
This modernized adventure of the three pig
brothers is bursting with humor, both in text and picture. Brightly colored and cartoon-like
illustrations show the pigs in their new roles, as they take selfies with Red
Riding Hood, give autographs to the Gingerbread Man, and dutifully parade Goldilocks
away in handcuffs as the three bears look on with admiration. Meanwhile, the determined wolf plots away in his
prison cell, decorated with tally marks, newspaper clippings, and a table
cluttered with books about brick-laying, key-forging, and wall-building. You can’t help but chuckle when, on a tip
from Red Riding Hood, the not-so-bright Superpigs round up all the grannies in
town and place them in a line-up. To
their dismay, the wolf was “a master of disguise and they just couldn’t spot
him”…but smart readers won’t be fooled by the funny-looking granny in a frilly,
pink nightgown holding a basket of bricks.
Eventually, the wolf delivers himself inside each of their houses, and
upon successfully capturing the first two, he wraps them in pastry dough, ready
to become a tasty pigs-in-a-blanket dinner for one.
Children will love chanting along with the wolf page
by page as he growls at each little pig.
“I don’t need to huff. I don’t
need to puff. I don’t need to blow your
house down….because I am already inside!”
This is sure to be a book they want to read again and again, and could
be used in a study of fractured fairy tales or comparisons with other variants
of the Three Little Pigs stories. The
story finishes with “The End?” and leaves kids guessing about the next adventure the Superpigs might
have when the devious wolf strikes yet again.
Honors and Awards:
- Amazon rating 4.9 / 5
- Goodreads rating 3.61 / 5
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