Story

Characters

Illustrations

Plot Sequence

Ending

Moral

The Three Little Pigs (Jerrad, 1992)

Three pigs, Mom, wolf, (stick man, straw man, Mr. Smith, brick man)

Cartoonish, wear clothes, stand on hind legs, watercolor paintings

Mom told kids to go build houses from straw sticks and bricks. Wolf blew down straw and stick, could not blow down brick house, tricked wolf with turnips and apples and barrel at fair

Brick house pig killed wolf.

Don't be mean or you will regret it. Don't give up.

Think ahead

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

(Scieszka, 1991)

Wolf, three pigs, (Granny, cops, reporter)

Shadows, Collage and oil and acrylic painting, cartoonish, wear clothes, hind legs, and dark.

Wolf wanted sugar, went to neighbors, sneezed make the door fall, and ate pig. Went to second neighbor, sneezed killed and ate second pig. Went to third neighbor, sneezed and did not kill pig.

Cops came, wolf in the newspaper and then put to jail.

Don't be selfish.

Don't be mean.

Not sharing is not good.

Don't stick to one thing.

Don't eat other people

Always keep extra sugar.

The Three Little Pigs (Zemach, 1990)

Three pigs, wolf, Mom, (straw man, brick man, stick man)

Cartoonish, wearing clothes, stand on hind legs, water color paintings.

Mom told kids to build strong houses - from straw, stick and bricks. Straw and stick pigs got eaten by wolf, the brick pig tricked wolf with turnips, apples and barrel.

Brick pig boiled the wolf and ate him.

Don't be mean.

Don't eat people.

Don't stick to one thing that is bad.

The Three Little Javelinas (Lowell, 1994)

Three Javelinas (wild pigs), coyote, Native American woman, adobe brick man

Cartoonish, Javelinas stood on hind legs and wore clothes, coyote sometimes on hind legs.

Maybe watercolor, chalk, colored pencil.

Three Javelinas lived in desert, went separate ways.

1^st house - tumbleweeds.

2^nd house saguaro ribs.

3^rd house adobe bricks. Coyote knocked down 1^st and 2^nd, Javelinas escaped to the 3^rd. Coyote tried to sneak in.

Coyote fell in chimney, got boiled, ran away and howled.

Don't blow down houses.

Make your house strong.

Don't go down chimneys.

Don't eat people.

Don't be mean.

Be friendly - don't be mean to other animals - they can be endangered. Don't loose your temper.

Try to be nice and forgive people, except if they are trying to blow down your house and kill you.

The Little Wolves and The Big Bad Pig (Trivizas, & Oxenbury, 1993)

Big bad pig, three little wolves, Kangaroo, rhino, beaver, flamingo, Mama

Walk on hind legs, don't wear clothes, water color.

Mama told kids to build house. Watch out for B. B. Pig, brick house, concrete house, metal house, flower house. Blowing doesn't work. Sledgehammer, jackhammer, dynamite, smell so pig turns good.  

Pig and wolves lived together ever after.

Don't break houses.

Don't be mean.

Strong houses don't work.

Things that low or fragile they wont wreck.

Use gentle ways to stop meanness. Make your house smell good. Don't try your hardest. Things you don't think will work, will work.