Folktale and Fairy Tale Resources in the CRC: Three Little Pigs

A humorous retelling of the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig manages to avoid the same fate

Tells the story of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf

A tale about three little pigs and their encounters with their enemy, the wolf

Three little pigs set out to seek their fortune. Each pig builds himself a house: one of straw, one of sticks, and one of bricks. When a hungry wolf huffs, and puffs, and blows in the houses of two little pigs, the third pig realizes that he needs more than a sturdy house of bricks to drive the wolf away.

In this retelling of a well-known tale, Serafina Sow starts her own waffle-selling business in order to enable her three offspring to prepare for the future, which includes an encounter with a surly wolf

Follow three little pigs as they outsmart a very hungry wolf

A southwestern adaptation of "The Three Little Pigs."

In this Appalachian version of the classic tale, Hamlet, the youngest pig, rescues her two greedy brothers from the clutches of the "mean, tricky old drooly-mouth fox."

In this original version of the traditional tale, the three little pigs are in their usual trouble with the somewhat bad wolf--who is really just very hungry and frustrated that the pizza parlor will not serve him

While three little tamales cool off on a woodsill, a tortilla rolls by. "You'll be eaten. You'd better run," he tells them. And so the tamales jump out the window. The first runs to the prairie and builds a house of sagebrush. The second runs to a cornfield and builds a house of cornstalks. The third runs to the desert and builds a house of cactus. Then who should come along but Señor Lobo, the Big Bad Wolf.

When it comes time for the three little wolves to go out into the world and build themselves a house, their mother warns them to beware the big bad pig. But the little wolves' increasingly sturdy dwellings are no match for the persistent porker, who has more up his sleeve than huffing and puffing.

The three pigs escape the wolf by going into another world where they meet the cat and the fiddle, the cow that jumped over the moon, and a dragon

The story of the 3 little pigs as told by the wolf

Three little pigs leave home to seek their fortunes and have to deal with a wicked wolf