The Three Little Pigs
Also known as Three Little Pigs, The Story of the Three Little Pigs
fairy tale
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"The Three Little Pigs" is a classic fairy tale about three pig brothers who each build a house to protect themselves from a wolf, using different materials and methods. The story has endured for centuries as a popular children's tale that teaches lessons about hard work, planning, and the consequences of taking shortcuts.
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Book · Open Library
- Author
- Paul Galdone
- First published
- 1971
- Editions
- 10
- Subjects
- Juvenile fiction, Swine, Children's stories, Folklore, Pigs, Children's fiction, Pigs, fiction, Juvenile literature
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Key facts
- Name
- The Three Little Pigs
- Country
- England
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"The Three Little Pigs" is a fable about three pigs who build their houses of different materials. A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses which are made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house that is made of bricks. The printed versions of this fable date back to the 1840s, but the story is thought to be much older. The earliest version takes place in Dartmoor with three pixies and a fox before its best known version appears in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, with Jacobs crediting James Halliwell-Phillipps as the source. In 1886, Halliwell-Phillipps had published his version of the story, in the fifth edition of his Nursery Rhymes of England, and it included, for the first time in print, the now-standard phrases "not by the hair of my chiny chin chin" and "I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in".
The phrases used in the story, and the various morals drawn from it, have become embedded in Western culture. Many versions of The Three Little Pigs have been recreated and modified over the years, sometimes making the wolf a kind character. It is a type B124 folktale in the Thompson Motif Index.