The wolf who appears throughout the story gets his comeuppance too, as in all good fairy tales, and it’s worth the wait.Īpparently inspired by David Bedford’s three-year-old daughter, there is much craziness throughout The Three Ninja Pigs, accompanied by Becka Moor’s wacky, colourful illustrations, which offer lots of detail to pour over and perfectly suit the story. The fairy tales are not just in the written story, there are lots of visual clues as well - look out for the funny green troll. These three little pigs just arent going to take it from that bully anymore The first starts aikido lessons-hell make mincemeat out of that wolf His brother learns a little jujitsu-hell chop that guy to pieces But when the wolf actually appears, it turs out these two pigs arent quite ready after all. All these places are recognisable because The Three Ninja Pigs is an amusing mashup of multiple fairy tales, namely The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Cinderella, and Rapunzel (plus a couple of others). This happens repeatedly and their journey takes them from home to a house in the forest, over a bridge, to a building site and then a shop. The three ninja pigs of this story dress in coloured suits and masks and everywhere they go, they wreak havoc (HEE-YA!), that is until they are sent on a mission somewhere else, with the admonition “No … more.
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