The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka

Scieszka started to write funny, twisted stories just like the ones he used to write in graduate school - this time with kids in mind. They're just a lot shorter than I ever thought they might be.' 'And I think that was the trigger that made me think. ' 'What if a guy woke up one day and he was a bug? Wouldn't that be weird?' and they loved that,' Scieszka says. He remembers telling the second-grade class about Kafka's Metamorphosis. His heroes were Borges, Cervantes and Kafka - writers who played with language and new ways to tell stories.Īfter he got his degree, Scieszka brought his post-modern sensibility to a Manhattan elementary school, where he was teaching. Later, when Scieszka was a graduate student at Columbia University, he began writing his own fiction. Seuss's The Cat In The Hat and the funny parodies in Mad Magazine did. 'I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names, because they always said each other's names - a lot.'ĭick And Jane never made Scieszka want to read, but Dr. There is the dog next to Sally, Jane,' ' Scieszka says. 'If Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. In one chapter, Scieszka writes about his own experience as a young reader encountering the 'strange alien family' of Dick and Jane and wondering why the characters repeated each other's names so frequently. Knucklehead, an autobiography for young readers, details Scieszka's experiences growing up in Flint, Mich., where he was the second-oldest of six brothers. In this photo from August 1962, Scieszka (far left) appears with four of his five brothers.Ĭhildren's author Jon Scieszka has written two dozen children's books, including The Stinky Cheese Man and the Time Warp Trio series, but his most recent work is a memoir.

The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka