When they get the dragon home, he returns their kindness by scaring the wolf off permanently. Together the pigs visit a book of nursery rhymes and save the aforementioned dragon from death at the hands of a knight. The three pigs land in the margins, which open out onto a postmodern landscape hung with reams of pages made for climbing on, crawling under and folding up for paper airplane travel. 1956) is one of the most highly acclaimed book illustrators in the world. (fans may note a strong resemblance between the dragon in that volume and the one featured in these pages), he takes the idea of 3-D characters operating independently of their storybooks to a new level here. The first publication to show the creative process of David Wiesner, one of the world's most acclaimed children's book illustrators A master of storytelling through pictures and three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal, David Wiesner (b. Though Wiesner briefly touched on this theme in his Free Fall But when the wolf begins to huff and puff, he blows the pigs right out of the illustrations. This version of the pigs' tale starts off traditionally enough-warm, inviting watercolor panels show in succession the tiny houses, their owner-builders and their toothy visitor. As readers have come to expect from the inventive works of Wiesner, nothing is ever quite as it seems in his picture books.
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