The basic plot is the same as in the original, but instead of the wolf, there's a "big, bad wrecking ball", and instead of houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, there are "garages" made of wood, stone and steel. Kids who like trucks and all manner of machinery will dig the industrial settings, and many will delight in figuring out the various correspondences between the original tale and this updated version (even down to the one-letter difference in the title, which was noted by our four-year-old, who has a recent obsession with all the letters of the alphabet). All in all, this is an imaginative rendering of the age-old story, and we've been interspersing it with readings of the classic version now and then too.
Monday, July 28, 2008
The Three Little Rigs
The Three Little Rigs is a modern, and somewhat faithful, take on the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs. Penned and illustrated by David Gordon, it substitutes three little trucks for the porcine characters of the original story. The basic plot is the same as in the original, but instead of the wolf, there's a "big, bad wrecking ball", and instead of houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, there are "garages" made of wood, stone and steel. Kids who like trucks and all manner of machinery will dig the industrial settings, and many will delight in figuring out the various correspondences between the original tale and this updated version (even down to the one-letter difference in the title, which was noted by our four-year-old, who has a recent obsession with all the letters of the alphabet). All in all, this is an imaginative rendering of the age-old story, and we've been interspersing it with readings of the classic version now and then too.
The basic plot is the same as in the original, but instead of the wolf, there's a "big, bad wrecking ball", and instead of houses of straw, sticks, and bricks, there are "garages" made of wood, stone and steel. Kids who like trucks and all manner of machinery will dig the industrial settings, and many will delight in figuring out the various correspondences between the original tale and this updated version (even down to the one-letter difference in the title, which was noted by our four-year-old, who has a recent obsession with all the letters of the alphabet). All in all, this is an imaginative rendering of the age-old story, and we've been interspersing it with readings of the classic version now and then too.
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