Wait! No Paint!

I'm a sucker for funny picture-books where the author is a character. This was almost as delightful as Mélanie Watt's Chester. I discovered Whatley because he's illustrated some by Jackie French and they're a great team. This isn't a meaningful variant of the classic fairy-tale, but kudos to Whatley for making me laugh out loud!

This is an adorable book! The story begins like the well-known "three little pigs and the big bad wolf" story, but takes a humorous turn when the Illustrator runs out of red paint to color the pigs with. The rest of the book follows the silly interactions between the Illustrator and the pigs. This would be a great book to use when talking about how authors and narrators and illustrators play a part in stories.

FANTASY: In this book, the characters drawn by the Illustrator can talk! The pigs act like people, and the fake story world can interact with the real human world.

A story about the Three Little Pigs that takes a bit of a twist. The illustrator starts changing the pictures after he runs out of red paint. If there is no red paint, then the there is no way to make a pink pig. Soon we have green pigs and wolves with bent noses. This is a cute and funny story about pigs who try to get through their story with an illustrator who is unpredictable.

This is a retell of "The Three Little Pigs" with a twist. The illustrator interrupts the story with dialog because there is no red paint to finish coloring the pink piggies. Perhaps the pigs would prefer to be green. We liked the story so much that we gifted a copy to our kindergarten classroom at the end of the year.

The three little pigs go off to build their separate houses one out of straw, one out of sticks, and one out of bricks. But wait! Who just spilled juice on the first little pig′s house? Why are the pigs turning green? And what is that mysterious Voice the pigs keep hearing? Ages 4 - 8

This book is about three little pigs who live in a house with a lot of other pigs so they decide to move and build their own houses. Throughout the story, they hear a mysterious Voice. The big bad wolf tries to blow down one of the pig's house but couldn't because someone knocked over juice and made the pig's straw house soggy and the pig got away. Then the wolf tries to knock down the the second pig's house but the pigs slammed the door on his nose so The Voice has to fix it and the pigs get away. Finally, the third pig shares that The Voice is the illustrator. The illustrator runs out of red paint so he starts painting the pigs different colors and patterns. In the end, the big bad wolf comes back to get the pigs but the illustrator show more changes them into Goldilocks and the three bears because the pigs don't want to be in the story anymore. show less

Genre- fantasy because its talking pigs
summary- this book was about the three little pigs and the big bad wolf and the illustrator that ran out of red paint
Review- I liked the way the book was set up it had a twist on it and I liked that