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Three Little Pigs Variants

Traditional Versions
Humorous Versions & Retellings
Books which Contain Variants of the Three Little Pigs

TRADITIONAL VERSIONS

NOTE: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J398	Brenner, Barbara	Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs	1972
J398	Galdone, Paul	The Three Little Pigs	1970
J398	Peppé, Rodney	Three Little Pigs	1979
J398	Pritzen, Barbara	The Three Little Pigs	1973
J398	Rutherford, Bonnie	Three Little Pigs	1959
J398.24	Benjamin, Alan	The Three Little Pigs	1988
J398.24	Bishop, Gavin	The Three Little Pigs	1989
J398.24	Marshall, James	The Three Little Pigs	1989
J398.24	Moser, Barry	The Three Little Pigs	2001
J398.24 ROSS	Ross, Elizabeth	The Three Little Pigs	1973
J398.24	Zemach, Margot	The Three Little Pigs: An Old Story	1988
J791.5	Butterfield, Moira	Puppet Play: The Three Little Pigs	1998
JE BEREN	Berenstain, Stan	The Berenstain Bears' Big Bedtime Book	2008
JE JERRA	Jerrard, Jane	The Three Little Pigs	1999
JE SALZM	Salzman, Yuri	The Three Little Pigs	1988
JER	Hillert, Margaret	The Three Little Pigs	2007
JER	Miles, Betty	The Three Little Pigs	1998
JER	Ziefert, Harriet	The Three Little Pigs	1995
F JE TROIS		Les Trois Petits Cochons	2006
S JE ESCAR	Escardo i Bas, Merce	The Three Little Pigs / Los tres cerditos	2006

HUMOROUS VERSIONS AND RETELLINGS

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J MAGUI	Maguire, Gregory	Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales Includes "The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus", found on p. 127.	2004
J398.2 ALLEY	Alley, Zoe	There's a Wolf at the Door As his plans are spoiled over and over again, the wolf keeps trying to find his dinner, in this retelling of five well-known stories and fables.	2008
J398.2	Ross, Tony	The Three Pigs	1983
J398.2	Vozar, David	Yo, Hungry Wolf!: A Nursery Rap A retelling in rap verse of "The Three Little Pigs," "Little Red Riding Hood," and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."	1993
J398.24 ARTEL	Artell, Mike	Three Little Cajun Pigs In this rhyming version of the familiar folktale, a big bad gator comes after the three pig brothers, Ulysse, Thibodeaux, and Trosclair, in the Louisiana bayou.	2006
J398.24	Collins, Sheila Hebert	Les Trois Cochons Piglet brothers 'Ti Joe, 'Ti Claude, and 'Ti Frere have reached the age when Mamere Cochon must send them out into the world to seek their fortunes. As they venture out on their own, they must each find, or build, their own homes.	1999
J398.24	Hooks, William H.	The Three Little Pigs and the Fox In this Appalachian version of the classic tale, Hamlet, the youngest pig, rescues her two greedy brothers from the clutches of the "mean, tricky old drooly-mouth fox."	1989
J398.24	Kellogg, Steven	The Three Little Pigs Life is pretty sweet for the three little pigs...until a hungry wolf named Tempesto shows up one morning. Percy, Pete, and Prudence refuse to let themselves become breakfast without a fight -- but can anything save the plucky pigs?	1997
J398.24	Trivizas, Eugene	The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig An altered retelling of the traditional tale about the conflict between pig and wolf--with a surprise ending.	1993
J398.24	Wiesner, David	The Three Pigs The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon.	2001
JE	Ada, Alma Flor	With Love, Little Red Hen Little Red Hen and her seven chicks just moved to Hidden Forest, and find their new neighbors aren't very neighborly when they refuse to help them plant corn. She's also on guard against two wolves who are happy to see them but for different reasons...	2001
JE	Ada, Alma Flor	Yours Truly, Goldilocks Everyone's been invited to the Three Little Pigs' housewarming party. Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood have already marked it on their calendars. Unfortunately, so have the Wolves -- the Big Bad kind who forced the Pigs to build their house of bricks.	1998
JE	Allen, Jonathan	Who's at the Door? Determined to have the three little pigs for his dinner, the wolf tries all sorts of disguises to get into their house.	1992
JE	Asch, Frank	Ziggy Piggy and The Three Little Pigs In this funny take on the classic tale, a laid-back but resourceful fourth pig saves the day for his three brothers.	1998
JE BRETT	Brett, Jan	The 3 Little Dassies In this adaptation of the traditional folktale, three little dassies (also called rock hyraxes) build their houses in the Namib Desert of Southern Africa, hoping for protection from the eagle that lives atop a nearby mountain.	2010
JE	Celsi, Teresa Noel	The Fourth Little Pig The sister of the Three Little Pigs comes to visit and tries to persuade her brothers, who have been hermits since an episode with a wolf, to overcome their fears and go outside.	1990
JE	Cresp, Gael	The Tale of Gilbert Alexander Pig Based on the traditional tale of "The Three Little Pigs" and inspired by the legendary career of Texan jazz trumpet player, Gil Askey, this fairy tale is a highly entertaining story of courage, conflict resolution, and the power of music.	1999
JE DELES	Delessert, Etienne	Big and Bad A wolf, Big and Bad, is on the loose, bounding across the hills and gobbling up every creature in his path. As he grows taller than the midnight moon, the other animals begin to worry that soon the planet will be too small for his increasing appetite.	2008
JE GEIST	Geist, Ken	The Three Little Fish and the Big Bad Shark In this spoof of The three little pigs, Mama tells her three little fish that it's time to seek their fortunes.	2007
JE GORDO	Gordon, David	The Three Little Rigs "Little rig, little rig, let me come in!" "Not by the chrome on my chinny chin chin." "Then I'll crash and I'll bash and I'll smash your house in."	2005
JE GUARN	Guarnaccia, Steven	The Three Little Pigs: An Architectural Tale Three little pigs, inspired by the architecture of Frank Gehry, Phillip Johnson, and Frank Lloyd Wright, build artistic houses to keep away the big, bad wolf.	2010
JE KIMME	Kimmel, Eric	The Three Little Tamales In this variation of "The Three Little Pigs" set in the Southwest, three little tamales escape from a restaurant before they can be eaten, and set up homes in the prairie, cornfield, and desert.	2009
JE KULKA	Kulka, Joe	Wolf's Coming!	2007
JE LAIRD	Laird, Donivee Martin	The Three Little Hawaiian Pigs and the Magic Shark Three little pigs who have built their houses of pili grass, driftwood, and lava rock are threatened by a very angry shark in diguise.	1981
JE	Lowell, Susan	The Three Little Javelinas Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs, but now you're going to meet the three little javelinas--lovable, wild, southwestern cousins of pigs--as they try to outsmart the coyote who had hoped to eat them with red chile sauce.	1992
JE PICHO	Pichon, Liz	The Three Horrid Little Pigs	2008
JE	Santore, Charles	Three Hungry Pigs and the Wolf Who Came to Dinner The life of a truffle-hunting pig is not easy! Unearthing delicious truffles all day without eating any is too hard for Bianca. After her very first bite, she and her piglets are banished to the forest where they meet up with a wolf.	2005
JE	Scieszka, Jon	The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs A spoof on the three little pigs story, this time told from the wolf's point of view.	1989
JE SIERR	Sierra, Judy	Tell the Truth, B. B. Wolf When Big Bad Wolf, who now lives at the Villain Villa Retirement Residence, is invited to tell his story at the library, he faces the truth about what he did to the three little pigs and decides to make amends.	2010
JE	Sommer, Carl	Three Little Pigs Three little pigs leave home to seek their fortunes and have to deal with a threatening wolf.	2000
JE	Whatley, Bruce	Wait! No Paint! The three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the big bad wolf, until a mysterious Voice gets involved and mixes things up.	2001
JER RICHA	Richards, Melinda	Wonder Pets: Save the Three Little Pigs! "The Three Little Pigs are in trouble! Can the Wonder Pets save them?"--back cover.	2009
JER	Wheeler, Lisa	New Pig in Town Chip is the new pig in class and he notices that Fitch is the only wolf in class. Is Fitch a bad wolf, a werewolf, or just a lone wolf?	2003
S J398.2	Salinas-Norman, Bobbi	The Three Pigs: Nacho, Tito and Miguel=Los tres cerdos This retold, non-violent version of The Three Pigs takes place in the Southwest. Miguel, the cleverest of the pigs, sees through the wolf's artificially sugared tricks, and ultimately destroys the wolf's power to deceive others.	1998
S JE	Lowell, Susan	Los tres pequeños jabalíes Meet the three little javelinas--lovable, wild, southwestern cousins of pigs--as they try to outsmart the coyote who had hoped to eat them with red chile sauce. Spanish/English bilingual edition.	1996

BOOKS WHICH CONTAIN VARIANTS OF THE THREE LITTLE PIGS STORY

NOTE: All call numbers are for the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana

CALL #	AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE
J BOARDBK GOLDM	Goldman, Leslie	Dora's Three Little Fairy Tales Dora invites young readers into the magical world of fairy tales. Included are Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Lucky Table, and The Three Little Pigs.	2005
J011.62 BOMHO	Bomhold, Catharine	Twice Upon A Time : A Guide to Fractured, Altered, and Retold Folk and Fairy Tales	2008
J398.2 AMERY	Amery, Heather	The Usborne Book of Fairy Tales A collection of six illustrated tales, each with a little yellow duck hidden in the story.	2004
J398.2	Voake, Charlotte	The Three Little Pigs and Other Favorite Nursery Stories Also includes "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "Henny Penny", "Little Red Riding Hood", Mr. Vinegar", and "Lazy Jack". Full color.	1992
JE MILLE	Miller, Edward	Three Tales Retold and Illustrated: The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff	2007

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