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Three Little Pigs (Little Golden Book)

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This version of the three little pigs has the STUPIDEST placement of illustrations -- there's no picture of the straw house, five pages worth of pictures of a part of the story I have never even heard of before, no picture of the two pigs running to their brother's house, no picture of the wolf blowing down the straw house, NO picture of huffing or puffing at all. My three year old keeps asking me what the straw house looks like, or what a kettle of boiling water is. The illustrations themselves are attractive enough -- the selections of which scenes to illustrate is downright moronic and frustrates me every time I attempt to read it again.

I downloaded the Three Little Pigs movie from iTunes onto my computer. It's the original Disney from the 30s! My granddaughter loves it. This book matches the movie perfectly! Now we watch the movie for motivation and then we read the book. Great match.

This is the latest addition to the "Little Golden Book" collection that I have purchased for my twin grandchildren. They totally loved the story. We have almost read the print off the pages and still they continue to ask me to read it again. They cheer for the little pig in the brick house and enjoy singing the "Big Bad Wolf" song. They look on the back cover of the book and "remind" me which "Golden Books" we are missing and need to add to our library.

These are the same stories that I read to my children that helped encourage their love of reading. I am very happy that "Little Goldne Books" have continued to be publiched through the years.

Disney always manages to turn meaningful literature into vanilla pap. In this version of the story, a "novelized" version of the Disney cartoon, the pigs are all "males", all survive the wolf's predations and the wolf escapes with only a mere scalding of his hairy hindquarters when he tries to come down the chimney into the brick house of "Practical" Pig. BORING!

Now, in the original version of the story, the pigs are all females, they don't wear white gloves and have three fingers, the first two pigs wind up in the wolf's stomach, and the last, smartest pig runs the wolf ragged by turning his efforts to lure the pig out of her house into several humorous and stinging humiliations. In the original version, the wolf meets his end in the pig's pot and rough justice is served.

Do yourself and your kids a favor - buy the Rabbit Ears audio CD of Holly Hunter narrating the original version. Told in her molasses drawl, she gives the pig a hilarious Long Island accent, and the wolf sounds like a native of South Bayonne. Although she takes a few liberties with the dialog (Wolf to Third Pig: "I'll bite you so hard it'll hurt your parents!!!"), it's a more faithful rendering of the story as it was meant to be told.

The Three Little Pigs was delivered promptly, and it is brand new, as promised. The price was fair, and I was thrilled to get it just as I remembered it when I bought it for my own kids, in the 70's. My grandchildren love the story, they make me read it over and over again. It teaches a good lesson about the value of hard work. There's nothing like a classic. Thanks for making it available to us.

I grew up on Golden Books and to give and read this book to my grand daughter was something special to me. Thanks for sending the book on time and in great condition.

Bought this for 2 year old grandson..little too advanced...listens to about half the book...but will keep it and he wiil enjoy it soon..the animation is good.

He reads this book over, and over, and over, and over. Wonderful classic. Great price.

Cute book. I use it for a compare/contrast lesson in middle school. The kids still love this story.

What can you say if you want the classic 3 pigs story this it. Golden books are great.