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.
也許我們期待的，并不是孩子能夠記住多少故事，而是他們能夠得到快樂。
也許他們聽了故事之后不僅僅是得到快樂，而且得到爸爸媽媽們的鼓勵(lì)，用他們特有的、沒有疆界的想象講出自己的故事。
經(jīng)典故事，很熟悉了，但是它還可以被“拆開”，然后重新“建造起來”，這樣講……
大衛(wèi)·威斯納借《三只小豬》的經(jīng)典故事，完全顛覆故事的發(fā)展與可能。三只小豬一樣是小豬三兄弟，一樣蓋自己的小房子，大灰狼還是來敲門。但是這次大灰狼不是從煙囪里掉進(jìn)滾燙的湯里，而是把三只小豬吹出故事了。故事外是安全的嗎？三只小豬怎么樣躲過壞心的大野狼呢？這次大衛(wèi)·威斯納要讓你知道：原來，故事也可以這樣講……
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)!
