The Three Pigs

Wiesner, D. (2001).  The three pigs.  New York: Clarion.

Three pigs went out into the world to seek their fortune.  Each build a home that the wolf tried to blow down.  Expect that in this story, the wolf blows the pigs right out of their story and are thrown into other stories.  They explore other tales and eventually bring in some of the characters from the other stories to the third pig's house and they live happily ever after.   

Visual Element: Texture

Texture can be used to enhance the realistic quality of illustrations or to stimulate the imagination.  The Three Pigs uses texture to create two different worlds within the story. The first world is a two dimensional traditional telling of the three little pigs, and the second world is a three dimensional, realistic world where the pigs escape their pages and travel through other books to solve their wolf problem. The contrast in texture is what tells the reader which world each section of the story is in. The three dimensional versions of the characters pop with texture, from the fur of the pigs to the scales of the dragon.  

Book Resources:

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