Pigs, Wolves and Hood

Have you read the Three Little Pigs in your childhood? How about Red Riding Hood? You know, of course (don't you?) that they have been around for years. Roald Dahl and Jon Scieszca knew the real tales, and the're available on You Tube or published. Have a look at the You Tube videos The True Story of the Three Little Pigs or Revolting Rhymes - Three Little Pigs. Or look up the real books in Penguin Random House or in Angus & Robertson. 

I wrote a ... sort of ... review of these books. Enjoy!

Wolf vs the Pigs – and Red Riding Hood

@ Louisa Reid

When Jon wrote the tale of wolf vs pigs

The teller told of himself

Who was, as he said,

A hero and kind (*cough cough*)

You can meet him from your bookshelf!

In this tale he said he would sneeze

Which, we now know, let him down

If you’ve ever sneezed

Then maybe you would know

That sneeze became his breakdown

He couldn’t trap the pigs while he sneezed at them

He tried to break into their homes

His sneeze got him caught

The cops took him to jail

And he told his tale from his tome

The other tale, told by Dahl, was narrated

By a person who wasn’t involved

S/he told of the wolf

And the pigs and the Hood

And s/he would end up with it solved

Red Riding Hood was not the one we knew

An innocent young child in the wood

In this tale she planned

And got what she wanted

And her new handbags were so good!

The wolf’s own tale was from a real bad guy

And this one was from who used to be

So good, compared to him

And not in this tale

From the pigs and the wolf she was free!

If you like Hood’s new up-to-date being

And if you like how she plays in this tale

Then Dahl’s told it better

He knows who now lives

And the winner is a female!