Weisner, D. (2001). The Three Pigs. New York: Houghton Mifflin.
To slowly lose the imaginative powers of childhood as we age is one of the saddest trends of growing up. However, what is lost is not always gone forever. David Weisner's book is as good for adults as it is for budding minds. In his fracturing of the three little pigs classic Weisner has the wolf blow the pigs right out of the story into a limbo-esque white space. Here all the pages of all the children's book stand in cue, waiting to be read. The style of illustration changes from cartoony when the pigs are inside the pages to a more realistic portrayal when they are gallivanting outside the delineated pages. It is no wonder that this book won a Caldecott as the story can be perfectly understood independent of the text which is quite sparse to begin with. A great book for kids to stuff their snouts into!
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