num_pages: 36
description: An unseen narrator goes head-to-head with the big bad wolf in this hilarious counting-book twist on The Three Little Pigs. Once upon a time there were three little pigs.Then the wolf ate them.THE END.This story is too short! I want a longer one!In this clever counting book the big bad wolf doesn't want to tell a long story. He wants to get to the eating part. But the narrator has other ideas. From a pig soccer team to a pig for every letter of the alphabet to 101 pigs in an animated movie the stories get more and more fantastical . . . but they're always too short and they ALL end the same way.Using an abacus as the basis for her illustrations Marianna creates beguiling little pigs and a menacing but slightly bored wolf that perfectly complement the inventive story by Davide Cali. Come for the counting stay for the storytelling! This book has it all.
language: English
title: Too Many Pigs and One Big Bad Wolf: A Counting Story
publisher: Tundra Books