It was so much fun! Glabby, since he was like the first brother, did get recycled by Wolfgang. Then we read the story and at each page we held up Glabby’s picture next to the illustrations and I made up and read aloud a paragraph about what Glabby was doing. He also said that Glabby’s factory (they build factories instead of houses) was a baking factory, which I secretly thought was brilliant.
He said that he wanted his robot (Glabby, a boy name in case you weren’t sure) to be like Rod, the first of the three robots in the story. He chose the perfect robot for the story. He first took a flip coloring book with lots of robots in it. The second reason it’s totally awesome is that the third pig (robot) is not a savior because he’s hard-working, he’s a savior because he’s “different.” In a totally great way.īut here’s a fun activity that my son made up: we added a fourth robot. Even older kids would benefit from making comparisons to the swinier version.
First, the fact that it’s a retelling of the Three Little Pigs makes it a great way to discuss how the same story can be told in different ways. This is a great book to share with your kids for so many reasons. Summary and activities to do with the kids: Genre: Picture Book, Fairy Tale Retelling And the activity I’m going to share with you below was not my idea at all. This re-writing of the three little pigs, with three little robots and a robot recycler named Wolfgang, is a great book with awesomely gorgeous illustrations. He was excited to show it to his dad, and even more excited to say “and now is the scary part!” (It’s not actually that scary, unless you have a thing about machines being taken apart. This anxiety is increased when the machines have eyes and ears and are friendly characters in a book.) His anxiety about the book translated to an obsession with it and he read it over and over until he loved it. (He does NOT like reading about machines that break. I was too, even after we read it once, twice, a hundred times.Īnd even after we discussed the implications THOROUGHLY of what it means to be a robot and be taken apart.
Recently while at the library to pick up a few hold items for myself, I gave my three-year-old about 30 seconds to pick up a couple of picture books (I know, top-notch mothering right there), and he was really excited to pick out Watch Out for Wolfgang.
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