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I'm not really sure what the moral of the story here is. Certainly, I'm concerned that the wolves just forgave the pig without the pig apologizing or providing redress. On the other hand, I was delighted by how surprising the book was. I mean really, I should have seen the dynamite coming and YET. Trivizas as a children's book author is an odd duck, since his day job is as a legal scholar in criminology. 😵

They offered him tea and strawberries and wolfberries, and asked him to stay with them as long as he wished

This is a funny and different version of the story. It would be good to use when exploring different fairytales.

This version of the traditional story totally flips the characters around. In this version the pig is the villain. The wolves go out on their own and make their different houses which the pig destroys. Eventually they make a house that pig enjoys, and they become friends.

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugne Trivizas and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury is a TL, that would be great as a RT, it won Parents' Choice Gold Award. This is a great book that reversed the telling of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf. The Big Bad Pig manages to break the first two houses that the wolves built together, but the third house was built of flowers each side a different kind, the Pig started to blow but was

Enjoyed this retelling of the three little pigs' story.