This darling, interactive book is just the thing to get young readers involved with the telling of the story. First page simply states, "First pig building a house." Short, simple, sweet. He enters his new abode and the text says , "One wolf huffing and puffing," but where oh where is that big bad wolf? No where to be found visually to the reader. The reader then is invited to huff and puff through a cut out hole instead of the wolf and see what happens. The next page shows the result of those magnanimous huffs. The same procedure is repeated with pig number two and you can guess what happens with pig's number three house...solid brick walls? .... the puny puffs just blow on through. What's the point then? You and your little one will giggle when you discover why you're huffing and puffing into the brick house. Kids will get a kick out of the fact that they get to participate in such a celebratory blow. This surely will bring on a huge smile and perhaps a cheer from your little one, not to mention vigorous clapping of hands as they find out what's up. The illustrations are black pen lines and pale watercolours. Both the illustrations and the text add a new fractured fairytale twist to the story that will have your child asking to play with the book again and again. I highly recommend this book. The illustrations are cute, although the "interactive" die-cut holes don't add any value, and so we completely ignored them. The text is extremely simple, which might work well for a very young child, but I think my three-year-old was a little bored by the lack of content, and my five-year-old wondered why the author didn't write in complete sentences. They both did love huffing and puffing, though!
What do You think about Huff & Puff (2012)?
Nice simple retelling of the three little pigs, in my bag for my wind themed storytime.
—jisha
Very cute and interactive with children.
—jesspao12
