The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig: A Pop-Up Storybook with a Twist in the Tale!

Eugene Trivizas. Egmont Books (UK), $24.95 (16pp) ISBN 978-1-4052-0669-3

Familiar characters and stories return in new editions. Well suited to a 3-D adventure, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig: Pop-up Edition by Eugene Trivizas, illus. by Helen Oxenbury, appears in a pop-up version of the 1993 tale, which, according to PW, is ""among the wittiest fractured fairy tales around."" With the pull of a tab and the turn of a wheel, readers can watch the wolves play tennis and construct their abodes, and the pig huff and puff and, when those fail, use a sledgehammer and jackhammer. .

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