The three little rigs

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Title:

The three little rigs

Author:

Gordon, David, 1965 January 22- author.

Summary:

Three little rigs look for help when the big, bad wrecking ball comes to destroy their garages.

Audience:

Presch.-2.

General Note:

Retelling of The three little pigs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.

Genre:

Fractured fairy tales.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Trucks -- Juvenile fiction.

Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.

Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- Juvenile literature.

Three little pigs (Tale) -- Adaptations -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Laura Geringer Books,

Publication Date:

2005

ISBN:

9780060581183

9780060581190

Publication Information:

[New York] : Laura Geringer Books, c2005.

Call Number:

P GORDON

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When the three little rigs set out to build their own garages, each one thinks that his is going to be the strongest. But then the big, bad wrecking ball comes to call and threatens to smash their new homes to smithereens. The brothers learn that it's only by bravery and teamwork that they can win the day.

Hansel and Diesel is second in the comic vehicle series by animator David Gordan, due out in Spring 2006.

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Gr 1-3-Three little rigs are sent off by their mama to build their own individual garages. The blue one builds his out of wood, the yellow one uses bricks, and the red one makes his out of steel. The evil wrecking ball comes and smashes the first two. The final rig, along with his brothers, enlists the help of the cranes and sends the wrecking ball, the mean magnet, and the cruel cutter to their fiery deaths in the melting pot. This fractured tale is not for the faint of heart. The wrecking ball itself has a scary, monsterlike face. The pages with the rigs are, by contrast, light and shiny. The accomplished artwork adds great drama to the story. Kids who love trucks will enjoy this adaptation, and fans of David Gordon's The Ugly Truckling (HarperCollins, 2004) are also a likely audience.-Linda M. Kenton, San Rafael Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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