Essay On The Three Little Pigs

The Three Little Pigs, and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs are both children's books sharing two very different perspectives of the same traditional story. Both books share the Dewey decimal classification of PZ, indicating they are both language and literature, as well as bibliography and library science (1). The Three Little Pigs, which is the original fictional story, is written in an easy to read format intended for juvenile audiences. With an illustrative format, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs still caters to juvenile audiences, yet has a more mature writing format due to the composition of words within the book. Due to the varying amount of works published, and the popularity of the story, the original author remains unknown. I would expect children which enjoy the original story to become frightened by the alternative fable; therefore, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs caters to an older age bracket.

Both stories are composed of the same main characters, which are animals behaving as humans. Three pig brothers and a wolf. The Three Little Pigs is told from the pig’s
To clear his name the Wolf tells his side of the story in his book, where he explains he was only attempting to borrow sugar for his grandmother's cake. According to the Wolf, the only reason the houses blew over was due to the incompetence of the pigs with the type of the material they used constructing their home. Both stories hold similar elements with opposing outcomes. Catering to young minds, all three pigs make it into the brick house, where they victoriously prevent the wolf from entering the premises. In The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, the Wolf has a cold at first two brothers meet their demise as the straw and stick house are toppled by the wolf’s sneeze. The proper thing to do for the wolf is to then consume the pigs for