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The Three Little Pigs – Classic or Horror Story

20th September 2010 By Susan Mann 6 Comments

I love to read, it is one of my favourite things to do in the whole world. I have hundreds of books, much to my husband’s annoyance; I love to buy books too. Some girls it shoes and handbags, mine is books I love nothing more. Don’t get me wrong I still love shoes and handbags but books come first.

When my little boy was born, I bought loads of books to read to him. I love reading to him, even if he doesn’t pay as much attention as I would like. My favourite time of the day is reading to him at bedtime; however, he does not really want to listen to the stories I want to read to him. But I’ll wear him down.
He’s always wanting Meg and Mog, which I do like but not after the twentieth consecutive night of the same story. He also loves In the Night Garden books just now, not my cuppa tea but who am I to judge.
When Muller Little Star Yoghurt’s were doing their offer of Ladybird books  we got The Three Little Pigs. Now I loved this book as a child, so I thought my little one would like it too. I was so excited to sit down and read it to him that night.
We snuggled up on his toddler bed and I started read. However, it wasn’t the nice story about the three pigs that defeated the bully wolf and lived happily ever after that I remembered. This was a story that would give me nightmares never mind my little ones.
***Contains Spoilers****
In this version, the mummy pig sends her three babies out into the big bad world with nothing more than a packed lunch. See ya later, I’m off to party is what I heard.
Bla bla bla… First pig builds house with straw, wolves blows it down and then eats him. Really!!! Eats the pig, when did this happen?
Bla bla bla…Second pig builds house of stick, wolf blows it down and then eats him. Really!!! Eats him again, how much bacon does one skinny wolf need.
Bla bla bla… Third pig builds a house of bricks, wolf tries to blow it down but he can’t. He’s full of hot air but not that much. So the pig put a big pot of boiling water on the stove, it’s one of the old fashioned ones where they cook on the fire. Pretty quick builder this pig had.
Therefore, the wolf climbs in the chimney, and well its wolf soup all round.
Now do you want your children listening to a story about Peppa and George’s cousins being eaten? In addition, the wolf like the one in Super Why, it has been made into soup and eaten.
What is the moral of this story? You eat my brothers and I eat you? I’m all for defeating the bully, but eating him?
What do you think about reading these types of stories to your children; do you try to sugar coat them? Or do you read these the way they are? If you do how do you explain the eating of the animals?
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  1. Alethea Hill says

    20th September 2010 at 8:47 pm

    This is a brilliant example, but many of the stories that we were read as children are in hindsight extremely creepy.I remember when I was about five or six my mum read me The Little Mermaid. I saw the picture of the evil Ursula and I couldn't sleep for weeks without the light on.I read 'happy' stories to my little man. I generally have to screen them too in case there's a hidden meaning; I read one recently where 'grandma went to hospital and didn't come home'. Made the mistake of judging a book by it's cover, though it was about a robot :-)!

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  2. (mostly) yummy mummy says

    21st September 2010 at 10:35 am

    That is horrific! Big fat nooooooo to the eating of the brothers and just a thought but if the wolf ate the pigs, then the pig ate the wolf, was he actually eating his own brothers..? Argh! I am terrible and if there is a slight hint of things being even slightly scary then I make it up as I go along! I'll be stuffed when the little ones actually learn how to read though 😉

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  3. JulieB says

    21st September 2010 at 3:40 pm

    We possess – literally – 4 versions of the three little pigs, all of which have slightly different variations/endings. My two love all of them, and they don't seem too bothered at all that a) they are different, and b) some of them end in a pretty gruesome fashion.Personally I've always loved the one where the pig eats the wolf. I don't think there's any harm in reading stories like that to children, as long as you take into account their age/preferences. It's certainly a good discussion point!

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  4. mrshev.com says

    21st September 2010 at 8:24 pm

    My kids seem to be morbidly fascinated with death and dismemberment, so I tend to not filter anything. The just seemed to accept the Three Little Pigs, but Little Red Riding hood effected them more…maybe because Grandma got eaten…Randomly, I have just re-written The Three Pigs…: mrshev.com

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  5. TheMadHouse says

    22nd September 2010 at 12:56 pm

    I just read it to them, they are OK about animals eating aminals ect it is life. We eat pigs! FIL is a farmer, can not escape nature! I big and am I bad and I am bad and I am big and I am going to eat me a little pig!

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  6. SusanKMann says

    22nd September 2010 at 7:29 pm

    Thanks for all your comments, a great help. I never thought of explaining about how we eat animals, thanks Mad mummy 🙂 I love mrshev's Three Little Pigs rewrite. There are so many versions Julie, I might try to get another one. Thanks Althea and Twinny, I will read them first in future. xx

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