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Wow! Fantastic book! Last night we read the Stinky Cheese Man and other stupid tales and it was trying to turn fairy tales on their head and it was different, but not great the way this book was. This is how you turn a story on its head. The art is fantastic and fairly easy to understand what is goin Leggi tutto

An inventive picture book that reminds me just a bit of The True Story of The Big Bad Wolf by Jon Scieska and Lane Smith, in that it assumes you know the traditional tale and then departs from it. In Wiesner's version we begin with the conventional story with a kind of retro illustration style, then Leggi tutto

This was my sixth Wiesner book and given that I assigned 5 stars to 4 and 3 stars to 1 of the previous five books, I guess I can say that this isn’t one of my favorite books by him. As I was reading, I missed the originality of his other books. Yes, this is a humorous and vastly changed version of t Leggi tutto

“The Three Pigs” is a children’s book written by David Wiesner, author of the famous book “Tuesday.” “The Three Pigs” is about how the three pigs basically come out of the story and their adventures in the real world. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal and is surely to send kids rolling Leggi tutto

Wiesner's alternative take on the traditional fairy tale of 'The Three Little Pigs' is incredibly entertaining. The relationship between the illustrations and written word on the page is extremely unique and would allow for a wonderful discussion with children about how stories can be represented. A Leggi tutto