Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
Published on 2. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-4052-0945-8 (ISBN)
Description
The classic fight between pigs and wolves as you've never seen it. The three little wolves erect first a solid brick house. The big bad pig comes along and when huffing and puffing fails to work, he uses a sledgehammer to bring the house down. Next they build a home of concrete: The pig demolishes it with his pneumatic drill. The three little wolves choose an even stronger design next time round: They erect a house, made of steel, barbed wire, armor plates and video entry system, but the pig finds a way to demolish it too. It is only when the wolves construct a rather fragile house made of cherry blossoms, daffodils, pink roses, and marigolds that the pig has a change of heart...Witty, subversive and a brilliant read aloud picture book. Eugene Trivizas' text for The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is perfectly complemented by Helen Oxenbury's watercolour illustrations.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Egmont UK Ltd
Target group
Children/juvenile
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 269 mm
Width: 137 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4052-0945-8 (9781405209458)
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Eugene Trivizas has written over 100 books, and is loved by children and grown-ups alike. He is the winner of more than twenty national and international prizes and awards, and much of his work has been adapted for stage, screen and radio. Dr Trivizas is a professor of criminology. He wrote the first studies of crowd violence in football fans and continues to practise as a barrister. His children's books include the popular 'The Last Black Cat'. Helen Oxenbury is an English author and illustrator. She won the Kate Greenaway medal in 1999 for illustrating 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and also in 1969 for 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat' and 'The Dragon of an Ordinary Family'. 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize in 1989, 'Farmer Duck' was winner of the British Illustrated Children's Book of the Year and the Smarties Prize and 'Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig' (Egmont) was highly commended and a Greenaway runner up.