Tuesday, November 3, 2009

"The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" by Jon Scieszka


After doing the author study last week, one of my group members did their study on Jon Scieszka which sparked an interest to explore some of the books he has written. The books looked funny, and I really was attracted to how Jon writes some of the old folk tale stories from a different point of view. For example, Jon wrote a book called "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" and it is written from the Wolf's point of view. After reading the three little pigs from this point of view the reader can understand that most times there isn't a right or wrong answer, but there is often times, a grey area in which people with different view points have different feelings and different perspectives about the same event or idea. Alexander T. Wolf is the wolfs name, and from his perspective the reader understands that all of the huffing and puffing was actually all a misunderstanding and he did not mean to intentionally harm the pigs. He actually was looking for an ingredient and went to his neighbors (each of the three little pigs houses) to see if they had it. Alexander had a horrible cold and accidently blew the houses down with his gigantic sneezes. From Alexander T. Wolf's perspective he didn't see any harm in eating the already dead pigs after their houses were accidently blown down by his sneezes. This could book could even facilitate a conversation or debate on whether we should eat animals in our society. I would definitely recommend this book, and use this book in my own classroom to teach students about multiple perspectives and being aware of other people's view points. Plus, this book is fun to read!

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