The Story of the Three Little Pigs

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"The Three Little Pigs" is a fable about three pigs who build three houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks. The phrases used in the story, and the various morals drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture. Many versions of The Three Little Pigs have been recreated and modified over the years, sometimes making the wolf a kind character. This is an original version that registers as a type B124 folktale in the Thompson Motif Index.

Original Illustrations by L. Leslie Brooke

"The Three Little Pigs" was included in The Nursery Rhymes of England (London and New York, c.1886), by James Halliwell-Phillipps. The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy had a wooden house:

"Let me in, let me in", said the fox.

”I won’t”, was the pixy's answer; ”and the door is fastened.”

The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to "seek out their fortune". The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and devours him. The second little pig builds a house of sticks, which the wolf also blows down, though with more blows and the second little pig is also devoured. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

"No, not by the hairs on my chinny chin chin."

"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in."

The third little pig builds a house of bricks, which the wolf fails to blow down. He then attempts to trick the pig out of the house by asking to meet him at several places at specific times, but he is outwitted each time since the pig gets to those places earlier than the wolf. Finally, the infuriated wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pig who owns the brick house lights a pot of water on the fireplace. The wolf falls in and is fatally boiled, avenging the death of the final pig's brothers. After cooking the wolf, the pig proceeds to eat the meat for dinner.

ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS AN OLD SOW WITH THREE LITTLE PIGS, AND AS SHE HAD NOT ENOUGH TO KEEP THEM, SHE SENT THEM OUT TO SEEK THEIR FORTUNE...!

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

Illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke

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English

987 Words, 28 Original Images

Three Little Pigs, Juvenile fiction, Pigs, Children's Picture Book, Fully Illustrated, Original Illustrations, Household Stories, Children's Story, Children's literature

Children's Picture Book

EM1800004

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