Thursday, November 13, 2014

Childrens book

Title: The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
Author: Jon Scieszka

The author bio is in the back of the book. It says that the author lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and their 2 children. He is a writer and a teacher.
The cover of the book is styled like a newspaper. The title of the book is the big bold headline of the newspaper. It has a picture of a wolf, that is wearing a suit and glasses, that is seeming to huff and puff in the direction of three little pigs.
There are about 28 pages.
The characters are:
-The "Big Bad" wolf
-The three little pigs
The setting of this story starts out in the wolf's house, then the three little pigs houses, as well as the road from his house to theirs, and at the end is the prison.
A short summary of this book is that the wolf, usually know as the bad guy, tells his side of the story of the three little pigs. He was just going to the pigs houses to ask for a simple cup of sugar for a cake for his granny. The first two houses only came down because they weren't built very well and came falling down from his huffing and puffing from sneezing from his cold.
This book has the following:
-animals as characters 
-use humor, some people might not find parts of it humorous, like where the wolf eats the pigs, but it is told in what is supposed to be a light hearted way.
-uses illustrations
-uses color
-it seems to use a little bit of actual photographs
-at the beginning it has kind of a nice tone
-a good amount of words per page, not too many, not too few
-a few words/phrases were repeated:
  • "huffed and puffed"
  • "dear old granny's birthday cake..." 
I think one of my favorite lines from this book would probably be:
  "What a pig!"
There is another one but I don't know the exact wording, but its talking about having the reader of the book think of it as a cheeseburger.
I feel like you would have to be reading the books to be able to see why these are funny.
I think this book would probably be best for a little bit older child, closer to 10 years and up. Because parts of it might upset young children, like when he eats the pigs,and an older child would be able to better to understand some of the jokes in it better.
My teacher read this book to us when I was younger and I liked it then, so I would say "yes, I would've liked it as a kid".



1 comment:

  1. He does clever things with these classic stories, doesn't he? This kind of makes me think of the movie Fantastic Mr. Fox. Have you seen it?

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