The Three Pigs（Caldecott Medal Book） 三只猪（凯迪克金奖绘本）

******重新讲故事******
也许我们期待的，并不是孩子能够记住多少故事，而是他们能够得到快乐。
也许他们听了故事之后不仅仅是得到快乐，而且得到爸爸妈妈们的鼓励，用他们特有的、没有疆界的想象讲出自己的故事。

经典故事，很熟悉了，但是它还可以被“拆开”，然后重新“建造起来”，这样讲……
大卫·威斯纳借《三只小猪》的经典故事，完全颠覆故事的发展与可能。三只小猪一样是小猪三兄弟，一样盖自己的小房子，大灰狼还是来敲门。但是这次大灰狼不是从烟囱里掉进滚烫的汤里，而是把三只小猪吹出故事了。故事外是安全的吗？三只小猪怎么样躲过坏心的大野狼呢？这次大卫·威斯纳要让你知道：原来，故事也可以这样讲……
Once upon a time three pigs built three houses, out of straw, sticks, and bricks. Along came a wolf, who huffed and puffed... So, you think you know the rest? Think again. With David Wiesner at the helm, it's never safe to assume too much. 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. 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. One by one, the pigs exit the fairy tale's border and set off on an adventure of their own. 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.
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. 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. His trademark crafty humor and skewed perspectives will tickle readers pink (even the nonporcine variety)!

Even the book's younger readers will understand the distinctive visual code. As the pigs enter the confines of a storybook page, they conform to that book's illustrative style, appearing as nursery-rhyme friezes or comic-book line drawings. When the pigs emerge from the storybook pages into the meta-landscape, they appear photographically clear and crisp, with shadows and three dimensions. Wiesner's (Tuesday) brilliant use of white space and perspective (as the pigs fly to the upper right-hand corner of a spread on their makeshift plane, or as one pig's snout dominates a full page) evokes a feeling that the characters can navigate endless possibilities--and that the range of story itself is limitless. Ages 5-up.

    大卫·威斯纳（DavidWiesner），出生于美国新泽西州，毕业于罗德岛设计学院，专攻插画。为美国顶尖插画家，国际大奖的常胜将军。他的作品向来广受各方瞩目，多次赢得美国凯迪克大奖评审青睐，还曾获得美国图书馆学会推荐童书、蓝缎带好书榜、《号角》杂志评选最佳童书、纽约市立图书馆好书100、《纽约时报》年度推荐童书、《亲子》杂志阅读魔力奖、《出版人周刊》杂志年度最佳好书、《学校图书馆》杂志年度最佳好书等奖项