Reading Notes: The Three Little Pigs, Reading A

This story is about three little pigs that went out to seek their fortune. It's just like the classic tale. One pig came across a bundle of straw and wanted to build a house out of it. The pig did, and a wolf wanted to come in. When the pig didn't let him, he huffed and puffed and blew the house dow then ate the pig.


The second little pig built a house out of furze, and the same thing happened with the wolf when he wasn't let in. So there was one pig left, and he decided to build a house out of bricks. When the wolf came to give the last pig the same fate, he clearly couldn't blow the house down. The wolf then tricked this pig into leaving his house the next day, telling him they'd go to a home field. The pig ended up not going, so the wolf asked him to go to a garden with him. The pig was smarter than this wolf, and he kept going to these locations earlier than the wolf to avoid any issues. The wolf was angry with the pig, and the pig knew his intentions. So the pig trapped the wolf and boiled him and ate him for supper.

I of course knew this story, but I think rewriting it to where one more of the pigs survives could be fun. Then, the two pigs could plot against the wolf together.

Bibliography
"The Three Little Pigs." English Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs, 1890.

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