The Three Little Pigs Count to 100

by Grace Maccarone

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781791105600
Publisher:	Weigl Publishers Inc.
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

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.

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The Three Little Pigs Count to 100

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By Grace Maccarone

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2015 Grace Maccarone
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8075-7901-5

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CHAPTER 1

Once upon a time, there was 1 mother pig.

She had 2 apples

but 3 sons.

She cut each of the apples in half to make 4 pieces. And the 4 pigs shared them.

They were still quite hungry.

"It is time for you to seek your fortunes," the mother pig said to her sons.

The first little pig met a man with 5 bundles of straw. "Please, sir, give me that straw to build a house," said the first little pig.

The man did, and the first little pig built a house in the shape of a cylinder.

A wolf came along and knocked at the door. "Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

To which the pig answered, "No! Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!"

This made the wolf angry and he said, "Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house in."

(Continues...)

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Editorial Reviews

09/07/2015
Similar to her treatment of letters in The Three Bears ABC (2013), Maccarone blends the story of the Three Little Pigs with a counting lesson, adding in a primer on shapes and several nursery-rhyme references. Pistacchio (a pseudonym for Spanish artists Núria Aparicio and Joan I. Guardiet) illustrates the action in vibrant digital cartoons; the first pig purchases five bundles of straw from a leprechaun, while the second gets sticks from Pinocchio himself (it’s unclear whether they’ve been sourced from the puppet’s nose). The multiple educational elements laced into the story compete for attention somewhat, but it’s still an entertaining introduction to numeric, geometric, and fairy-tale basics: in one of the funniest sequences, Humpty Dumpty tries to persuade the third pig to build a house from eight bags of leaves, while Puss in Boots offers 10 pails of peanuts. Ages 4–7. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"Cheerful illustrations and familiar fairytale characters enliven this tale of numbers and shapes." School Library Journal, September 1, 2015

"This is a good fit for those looking for a lively lesson in the daily abundance and practical usages of math. Booklist, November 12, 2105

"Digital art cleverly incorporates metafictive references." Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 2015

"An entertaining introduction to numeric, geometric, and fairy-tale basics: in one of the funniest sequences, Humpty Dumpty tries to persuade the third pig to build a house from eight bags of leaves, while Puss in Boots offers 10 pails of peanuts." Publishers Weekly, September 1, 2015

From the Publisher

2015-06-29
The three little pigs take on math. As the title indicates, the story overtly embeds math content in its text. First, one mother pig cuts two apples in half so that she and her three children can have a snack, but since they're still hungry, she sends them off to seek their fortunes. The first two pigs acquire their respective, traditional building materials, with the text identifying five bundles of hay to build a cylindrical hut and six sticks (and some sheets) to build a conical teepee. The wolf's huffing and puffing gives both pigs time to escape, and it also apparently slows him down enough that the third pig has time to reject various materials—seven baskets of wool, eight bags of leaves, nine boxes of rose petals, 10 pails of peanuts—until he finds someone (the Gingerbread Man) selling bricks and buys 100 for a bunkerlike house in the shape of a cube. After failing to huff and puff this house down, the wolf becomes a vegetarian, and the pigs gather in the brick house for dinner. A few extra pages prompt readers to revisit the shapes and numbers from the story, but these feel superfluous to the book rather than integral and enriching. Digital art cleverly incorporates metafictive references but is otherwise undistinguished. Count on other retellings for the fractured-fairy-tale shelf. (Math picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews