The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka is about the fairytale story The 3 Little Pigs accept it is told in the point of view of the wolf. This is a great book to read to children because most students are very familiar with the Three Little Pigs story, so they see this book as really funny. I personally enjoy this book as well because it is a great source for me to use in my future classroom to discuss how all kids do not have the same point of view. The story immensely changes from when we hear it in the perspective of the pigs, to when we hear it from the wolf. What we get out of the book is that not one specific story is correct, but that there are going to be many different outlooks on situations depending upon what different people have experienced. The pigs have grown up being taught that wolves are big and bad, and that is probably how they built their story even though it may not be 100% true. This story may be a good opener when we are talking about tough topics in the classroom like poverty, war, death, etc. These topics may be controversial, but they are issues teachers will need to discuss in an appropriate matter. The discussion with the students may have very diverse opinions depending upon what they have experienced. If a student had a mom or dad pass away in the war, they may have a very negative outlook on the war. This book may help students to not try and argue with students they did not agree with, but accept that there are many different perspectives to issues.