Product Description
by Arthur Geisert (Illustrator), Lisa Wilke Pope (Author)
When the Big Bad Wolf goes after three little pigs in Iowa, he's ill-prepared for their inventiveness and can-do spirit!
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 is sure to surprise and delight.
Author Biography
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.