Wait! No Paint! By Bruce Whatley

This book is a spin off of the original Three Little Pigs. The illustrator is very creative is his use of color because he has to make it work with the authors lines. I enjoyed the artistic aspect of the book especially on the cover with the paint brush and paint being the main focus. The book starts out very similar to the original fairy tale, but then the narrator runs out of paint. As an teacher I feel that I could use this idea in my classroom and have my students design their own pigs without the color red, like in the book. I would read the entire book out loud to my class and then have them make up their own ending and have them draw illustrations to go along with the ending. There was great attention focused on the font of the words. There are many words that are italicized in to grab the readers attention. I think that a younger audience will really like parts of this book, for example the part where the narrator split juice on the straw house. I really like that the main idea of the book is based on color and not just retelling the original fairy tale. I think that other books could be remade in a similar manner, making this book a good idea for a mini lesson in a classroom setting. The ending was my favorite, because it goes into another fairy tale (Goldilocks and the Three Bears) which was very unexpected. The last page of the book is also very creative because it ties the entire theme of the book together by having the pigs left uncolored. I think that if a student owned this book, they would want to color in the pictures themselves. Offering coloring books to younger students after they read this book would be a creative activity.