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The Three Pigs is a children's picture book written and illustrated by David Wiesner. Published in 2001, the book is based on the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs, though in this story they step out of their own tale and wander into others, depicted in different illustration styles. Wiesner won the 2002 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations, Wiesner's second of three such medals.

Description
Wiesner's version of Three Little Pigs is told in the present tense from a third-person multiple point of view. The story includes lines of repetitive dialogue like "not by the hair of my chinny chin chin" and "then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down." Unlike the original version Three Little Pigs by James Halliwell-Phillipps, Wiesner's adaptation of the original story includes the three pigs traveling to other "realms" where they visit classic nursery rhymes like Hey Diddle Diddle and I'm a Little Teapot.

Synopsis
The beginning of the story starts out traditionally just like the original fairy tail. The first pig builds his house of a straw. Upon denying the wolf entry into the house, the wolf blows down the house. However, unlike the original version, instead of eating up the now homeless pig, the wolf blows the pig out of the page. The same happens to the second pig who builds his house out of sticks. The third pig meets up with the first and second pig who got blown out of the story. The three pigs embark on an adventure. For transportation, they use a paper airplane made from a sheet of paper from the story. Upon crash landing the paper airplane, they arrive at another story, more specially a nursery rhyme Hey Fiddle Fiddle. Inside the rhyme the three pigs rescue an about-to-be-slain dragon and a cat. Together, the pigs, the dragon and the cat all go to the last house, which is the house made from bricks made by the last pig. The wolf confronts the crew one last time, could no longer blow the sturdy house down. The pigs, dragon, and cat lived happily ever after.

Critical Reception
The Three Pigs was published to very strong reviews that prove this book is very unique. Publishers Weekly described Wiesner's work "nothing is ever quite as it seems in his picture books." Carol Otis Hurst from Teaching Pre K-8 said "Make sure you don't flip through this book too quickly. There are many subtleties you'll miss if you don't take the time examine each page."

Trivia
The flying fish picture is a parody of Wiesner's first Caldecott Medal-winning picture book Tuesday.