The Three Little Superpigs: Trick or Treat?

by Claire Evans, Claire Evans (Illustrator)

Overview

Join the Three Little Superpigs on another adventure in Fairyland!

It's time for Fairyland's Halloween Parade! The festivities are sure to be extra sweet this year with the Superpigs leading the way as the guests of honor. But disaster strikes when a wicked witch steals all the Halloween candy to decorate her gingerbread house!

It's up to the Three Little Superpigs to recover the candy in time for the parade, but not everything is as it seems in this Halloween heist. Will a familiar villain ruin the celebration before it even begins?

The hilarious story reimagines the story of Hansel and Gretel with a classic Superpigs twist, and continues the exciting Fairyland adventures of the Three Little Superpigs!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781338770636
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD660L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Claire Evans is an author and illustrator from Liverpool, England. Her other books include The Chicken That Hatched a Cow, Robot Stop, and The Bear and the Hair.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Three Little Superpigs: Trick or Treat?:

"Richly colored...This fairy tale mash-up adventure with a Halloween twist will make a great addition to festive read-alouds and plot sequence lessons." — School Library Journal

Praise for The Three Little Superpigs:

"Evans' smart twist on the familiar tale will elicit giggles at its clever wordplay and fairy-tale cameos. The details in the... brightly colored illustrations will make repeated readings as much fun as the first." — Kirkus Reviews

"Evans is an energetic, pop-culture-savvy storyteller: a smart blend of vignettes and spreads keeps the tale tightly paced, and she cleverly evokes the visual and textual tropes of horror and detective movies." — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2021-07-14
The Superpigs continue their zany spins on classic fairy tales with a Halloween twist.

The Superpigs have settled on their costumes and are working on their performance for the Spooktacular Halloween Parade when they’re summoned by Hansel and Gretel to save the stolen candy from the Wicked Witch. Once at her gingerbread house, they’re alarmed to find their familiar foe, the Big Bad Wolf. Using their superskills, they save themselves and make it to the parade in style. Readers unfamiliar with the characters will wonder how the pigs come into their powers. At first, they seem completely and comically without super abilities. “Practice makes perfect,” the text quips, but does practice without magic make pigs fly? This element aside, Evans’ play on childhood classics uses just enough of the originals to make it familiar while still new. The Big Bad Wolf is a particularly fun character, surprising readers (and the pigs!), speaking in rhyme, and even showing up playfully at the end. The illustrations are bright and lively, depicting lots of fairy tale figures, with oranges and purples conveying an autumnal, evening mood. They’re also very detailed, particularly the candy-lined gingerbread house and its lawn full of jack-o’-lanterns. Most of the characters are not human, but Hansel and Gretel are depicted with brown skin. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Updated, Halloween-ready fairy-tale foolery. (Picture book. 4-6)

Kirkus Reviews