He gives them wings (or paper airplanes) and sets them on their way! In his latest flight of fancy, Wiesner uses shifting illustration styles and fonts to startle complacent readers into an imaginary world even as they ponder the conventional structure of story. But the wolfs huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story. Wiesner, Caldecott Medal recipient for Tuesday, and Caldecott Honor winner for both Sector 7 and Free Fall, prefers not to wait around until pigs fly. This picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. Folding a page of their own story into a paper airplane, the pigs fly off to visit other storybooks, rescuing about-to-be-slain dragons and luring the cat and the fiddle out of their nursery rhyme. One by one, the pigs exit the fairy tale's border and set off on an adventure of their own. The text continues on schedule-".and ate the pig up"-but the perplexed expression on the wolf's face as he looks in vain for his ham dinner is priceless.
When the wolf approaches the first house, for example, and blows it in, he somehow manages to blow the pig right out of the story frame. With David Wiesner at the helm, it's never safe to assume too much. So, you think you know the rest? Think again. Along came a wolf, who huffed and puffed. Once upon a time three pigs built three houses, out of straw, sticks, and bricks.
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