How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance

Name: How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9781592703142
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By Lisa Wilke Pope

Series: Clayton County Trilogy

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What if the three little pigs' mother warned them about the big, bad wolf so they could prepare for his huffing and puffing? In this inventive retelling, readers discover how each pig's clever engineering leads to the familiar happy ending. Paired with Arthur Geisert's intricate illustrations, Lisa Wilke Pope's understated and droll narrative adds a fresh twist to this classic tale.
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When the Big Bad Wolf goes after three little pigs in Iowa, he's ill-prepared for their inventiveness and can-do spirit!

When the Big Bad Wolf goes after three little pigs in Iowa, he's ill-prepared for their inventiveness and can-do spirit!

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What if the three little pigs' mother warned them about the big, bad wolf so that they could plan for—and even count on—his huffing and puffing? In this creative retelling, readers will be just as astonished as the wolf to discover how each pigs' strategic engineering unexpectedly leads to the familiar happy ending.

Award-winning master etcher Arthur Geisert returns to his Clayton County, Iowa trilogy in this follow-up to Pumpkin Island. But this time, Geisert is back with his legendary pigs, whose remarkable resourcefulness and can-do spirit saved the day in Ice and The Giant Seed!

Paired with Geisert's inventive and intricate illustrations, debut talent Lisa Pope Wilke's understated and droll text in How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance is sure to surprise and delight.

Series: Clayton County Trilogy

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How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance

By Lisa Wilke Pope

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781592703142

Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 October 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Enchanted Lion Books

Illustration: full-color throughout

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Illustrated by Arthur Geisert

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 267.0mm

Height: 314.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 40

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Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Lisa Wilke Pope Series: Clayton County Trilogy Young Adult

About the Author

Award-winning children's book author Arthur Geisert has been creating etchings and hand-coloring them for picture books for over forty years. Geisert, who grew up in Los Angeles and learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute, has spent his entire adult life in the Midwest. He now lives on Main Street in Elkader, Iowa. Geisert's work has appeared in the New Yorker and Horn Book Magazine. It also has been collected by various museums and has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010, his book Ice was selected as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book, the third book on the list for Geisert. In recent years, he has published The Giant Seed, Thunderstorm, and Pumpkin Island, the first book in his trilogy about Clayton County, Iowa. How Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance is the second book in the trilogy.

How the Big Bad Wolf Got His Comeuppance