The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

A. Wolf just had a cold and needed to borrow a cup of sugar. The houses were structurally unsound. The whole thing has been completely misrepresented by the media. Scieszka's picture book makes the oldest possible argument about narrative — that every story has a perspective, that the official version is always told by whoever survived to tell it, and that the villain of one story is the hero of another — in the most accessible possible form: a fairy tale retold by its villain. The first step toward everything else on the P&P shelf. A child who understands that the wolf has his own account of what happened is a child who will eventually ask who else's account is missing from the stories they've been told.