The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

This version of the Three Little Pigs portrays the wolf as being a helpless old man who was only going to his neighbor’s home to get a cup of sugar to bake his grandmother a birthday cake. He had a cold and continued to sneeze every time he was at the door of his neighbor which ended up knocking down their whole house. He says that he wouldn’t want to just leave a ham dinner sitting in the debris so he eats the first and second pig. He tells that the newspapers wanted to make their story more interesting so they added that the wolf was a bad guy and had killed the first two pigs. This version of the three little pigs is great to use in a text set to see how the author turned the story around to make the bad guy into the good guy. This is a great book to show that there are always other sides to a story. In most traditional "Three little pig" stories the wolf is portrayed as the bad guy who knocked down the houses of the three little pigs in order to eat them. In this story it makes the audience think about the wolf's point of view and how the story may have been told wrong in the first place, although it is unrealistic.:)