The Three Pigs written by David Wiesner, 2002 Caldecott Award, begins as the book we all know so well; there are three pigs, there is a wolf, there are houses being built, and there is the huffing and puffing thing. But evidently the wolf had more blow in him then we originally thought; he blew the pigs all the way out of the story. The Three Pigs visit other worlds by flying away on their story's pages folded into paper airplanes. They land in other "stories" where they meet the cat and the fiddle and a dragon. The cat and the dragon come back to where the three pigs story left off. The story continues and the wolf meets the dragon...David Wiesner also illustrated The Three Pigs. This was my favorite part of the book. I liked the way the pigs morphed from cartoon characters into more realistic looking character and sometimes they were half and half as they came in or left a page. There are several pages of white back ground with the pigs flying. One, my favorite, you see them in the corner and it is their backside flying away, it is GREAT, on the paper airplane!
I thought the story was sparse, it could have been more developed and interesting. But the Caldecott is for illustrations and they are really excellent!
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