The Three Little Pigs Count to 100

Maccarone, Grace

ISBN 10: 0807579017 ISBN 13: 9780807579015

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 2015

Synopsis

The well-known fable of the Three Little Pigs gets a makeover in this efficient counting guide for beginning readers. The first little pig uses 5 bundles of straw to build a house in the shape of a cylinder, but the wolf blows it down. Using 6 big sticks and sheets to build a cone-shaped house, the second little pig is also unsuccessful at keeping the wolf at bay. Finally, the third little pig smartly gathers 100 strong bricks to build a cube-shaped house. Guess which piggy’s house finally withstands the big bad wolf’s blows? Pages at the end feature information on ordinal numbers, counting by ones and tens, and geometric shapes.

About this title

About the Author

Grace Maccarone is a children's book editor and the award-winning author of many books for children, including Miss Lina's Ballerinas, The Haunting of Grade Three, Monster Math, The Three Bears ABC, and the First Grade Friends series. She lives in New York. Pistacchio is the union of two self-taugh artists from Barcelona: Nuria Aparicio and Joan I. Guardiet. Nuria lives with her husband and two cuddly cats. She's knitting a beautiful pullover for the Wolf to make him happier. Joan is looking forward to adding this book to his library, allegedly to read it to his two daughters. His wife suspects he will secretly use it to learn to count to 100.

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 2—Maccarone successfully combines teaching complex shapes and numbers, using a number of fairy-tale characters to do so. Mama Pig sends her three sons to seek their fortunes. The first pig meets Rumpelstiltskin and uses his straw to build a cylindrical house, which is unsurprisingly unsturdy. Pig number two meets Pinocchio and buys materials to build a cone-shaped teepee, which also doesn't hold up. The third pig meets a succession of characters, each offering him a larger number of inappropriate building supplies, such as leaves, wool, and peanuts. Finally, he encounters the Gingerbread Man, who has 100 bricks. The story, numbers, and shapes are summarized at the end. Younger children will likely need help interpreting the apple and brick graphs. VERDICT Cheerful illustrations and familiar fairy tale characters enliven this tale of numbers and shapes.—B. Allison Gray, Goleta Public Library, CA

Edition details

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0807579017
• ISBN 13: 9780807579015
• Binding: Library Binding
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Pistacchio