Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Wiesner, D. (2001). The Three Pigs. New York: Clarion.  The Three Pigs is unlike any traditional story of the 3 little pigs.  The book starts out retelling the familiar tale but soon the pigs figure out how to exit the story by getting rid of the storyboards in the book.  One pig makes a paper airplane out of the pages and they glide around through several pages.  Finally, the pigs land in a nursery rhyme and eventually they are in the middle of a story set in medieval times with a dragon.  The pigs rescue the dragon who was in danger of being killed by the prince.  They soon notices the pages of their own story and as they set up the storyboard they invite the dragon to join their tale.  All are there as the book continues with the wolf at knocking on the brick house, with the recognizable mandra of, "Then I'll huff and I'll puff...". As the wolf huffs, the dragon pops out of the house surprisingthe wolf changing the fairy tale forever.  The dragon and the pigs decide to stay together and of course live happily ever after.  The Three Pigs won the Caldecott Award in 2001, its creative, imaginative twist on this traditional fairy tale has inspired many fractured fairy tales.  Wiesner has designed a book that challenges the reader to go beyond the ordinary, conventional to imagine what could be different if?. It is an excellent book to be included in any classroom library and can be used as a mentor text in teaching different subjects.  One project is for students to create their own storyboards and write their own fractured fairy tale.  This could done alone or as a group where each student designs a part of the story and a classroom fairy tale is produced.  Other fractured fairy tales included The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and Seriously, Cinderella is so Annoying.

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