![]() ![]() His story was brought to life by artist Lane Smith, 59. The book’s framed-by-the-press angle came from reading tabloids like the New York Post in the 1980s, Scieszka said. It was during that year that Scieszka’s passion for reimagining tales produced “The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs!,” a story about empathy and the power of interpreting from different perspective s. I also loved that my 2 nd graders’ response to almost any question I would begin to ask them was, ‘I didn’t do it.’ So having the wolf tell his side of the story combined all those loves.” “ I love the oldest tales – myths, fables, legends, fairy tales,” Scieszka said. He also spent time “mashing up my adult favorites and the history and forms of writing for kids,” Scieszka said. While there, he took a year off to read the likes of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon. Scieszka told me he eventually landed a job teaching at an alternative elementary school where there were no grades. ![]() He painted apartments in the Upper East Side to make money. ![]() ![]() Scieszka had just moved from Michigan to New York City to pursue a master’s in fiction writing at Columbia University. The story behind “The True Story Of The 3 Little Pigs!” begins in the 1980s. ![]()
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