The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
by Jon Scieszka
The wolf tells his side. He just needed sugar.
For you if
your child accepts the official version of stories and is ready to hear that the wolf would like a word
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A. Wolf just had a cold and needed to borrow a cup of sugar. The houses were structurally unsound. The whole thing has been completely misrepresented by the media. Scieszka's picture book makes the oldest possible argument about narrative — that every story has a perspective, that the official version is always told by whoever survived to tell it, and that the villain of one story is the hero of another — in the most accessible possible form: a fairy tale retold by its villain. The first step toward everything else on the P&P shelf. A child who understands that the wolf has his own account of what happened is a child who will eventually ask who else's account is missing from the stories they've been told.
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