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Wolf Pie

This is a longer version of the traditional three little pigs story.  The three Pygg brothers, Marvin, Lester, and James, built a strong, brick house to keep out wolves.  Wilfong Wolf showed up and wanted in.  When the Pyggs would not let him in (and he couldn’t blow the house down) Wilfong decided not to let them out.  All winter he stayed by the window listening to stories, watching them play games, and sharing their food.   By spring, Wilfong had reformed and the Pygg brothers, while not afraid of him any longer, still would not let him come in.  In the summer, the Pyggs built an additional room on their house with an outside door  for Wilfong.  They also decided to let him go with them on vacation to the beach.  After a daring rescue from a rafting accident, the Pyggs finally accepted Wilfong as a friend. One morning, hungry wolves surrounded the house and once again Wilfong used his ingenuity to rescue the Pyggs.  Readers familiar with the three little pigs story will enjoy this humorous, more sophisticated, ending.  Illustrations are watercolor, pencil and digital.  While engaging, they are somewhat abstract.  Buildings and heads are two-dimensional.  While the Pyggs are brothers, sometimes they appear to be mother, father, an child.  Even so, this version of the three little pigs is charming.