Summary:
Officer
Doggity is constantly having to stop the Big Bad Wolf (BBW) from
trying to eat the other animals. Every time he catches BBW in the
act BBW promises he will be good from now on. One Night Doggity
hears a puffing and huffing and the air is filled with straw, and the
sounds of squealing pigs can be heard. When doggity investigates a
strange sheep calling herself Esmeralda is pulling the pigs from the
straw. She claims to have saved them. The old cows next door say
they warned to pigs not to use straw and doggity searches for the
wolf. He finds BBW at home sick, but doggity knows somethings is up!
The
next day Esmeralda instructs the pigs to build a new house of sticks.
The cows warn that it is still too flimsey but the Pigs don’t
listen. That night Doggity stakes out the pigs new house to watch
for the wolf, only Esmeralda is seen walking about, and Doggity falls
asleep. A huffing wakes him up and Doggity finds the pigs again in
their destroyed house and Esmeralda helping them up. The cows take
the pigs in that night and read them the story of the 3 little pigs.
Doggity
finds the wolf at the hospital, but still knows this is not right.
The next house the pigs build from bricks, which Esmeralda is not
happy about. The cows and Doggity stake out the new house when it is
done and they hear a huffing a puffing, but the house stands strong.
Doggity spots Esmeralda running away and followers her until she
climbs into the hospital window, and Doggity realizes it was the wolf
in sheep’s clothing. The wolf is arrested and promises to be good
again. The next day a strange horse is in town giving the pigs bad
gardening advice.
Christelow,
E. (2002). Where's the big bad wolf? New
York, NY: Clarion Books.
My
Impressions:
A fun
little story with a mystery that I solved with the first picture of
the “sheep” who looked like a wolf with a wool around his head.
I am unsure as to whether or not small children would be able to
figure it out so quickly, but I have a feeling that some would. It
could add to the fun though if reading to a group of children and
some of them try to identify the wolf but a clever reader could
downplay it maybe.
Reviews:
“Gr
1-2-A determined Detective Doggedly pursues the elusive BBW (Big Bad
Wolf) in a delicious parody of the traditional tale. Three dim-witted
and naive pigs, a wolf with a taste for unusual costuming, and three
sharp-eyed residents of the nearby "Home for Elderly Cows"
create a mystery worthy of the slightly befuddled detective: who is
destroying the pigs' houses, when the wolf is currently hospitalized
with mysterious flulike symptoms? Doggedly catches the culprit, but
one doubts that this "egg-snatching, pie-pinching,
chicken-chasing, pig-poaching" villain is ready to change his
habits when released. Christelow's pen-and-ink and gouache cartoons
show sticks and straw flying across pages, the not-too-bright
protagonist, and a hilarious wolf in sheep's clothing. Characters
comment on all the goings-on in dialogue balloons that add to the fun
and humor. Pair this book with Jon Scieszka's True Story of the Three
Little Pigs (Viking, 1989), another choice for lovers of fractured
tales.-Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX (c) Copyright
2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media
Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.”
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Usage
in a Library Setting:
This
could be used to spark ideas in children to come up with other common
fairytales they know and think of different ways to tell the story
which they could ten draw or maybe go around telling their stories.
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