The Book Of Three vs The Three Little Pigs: Which Should You Read?

Cover of The Book Of Three The Book Of Three Lloyd Alexander · 1964 ★★★★☆ 4.0 190 pages · ≈ 3 h 31 m · Light
“Taran wanted to make a sword; but Coll, charged with the practical side of his education, decided on horseshoes.”

Taran is bored with his Assistant Pig-Keeper duties, even though his charge is none other than Hen Wen, Prydain's only oracular pig. He'd rather be doing something more heroic, like making swords and learning to use…

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Cover of The Three Little Pigs The Three Little Pigs James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps · 1962 ★★★★☆ 3.8 26 pages · ≈ 29 min · Light

Three little pigs leave home to seek their fortunes and have to deal with a threatening wolf.

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1 film adaptation

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How to choose

Scores by source

The Book Of ThreeThe Three Little Pigs
Goodreads 4.0 (84691) 3.7 (461)
Hardcover 4.0 (52) 4.3 (3)
Apple Books 4.5 (153) 4.0 (63)

Reception

The Book Of ThreeThe Three Little Pigs
Ratings 84691 461
Editions 53 61
Citations 22 —
Film adaptations 1 1
Want to read 68508 217
Reading it now 1800 71
Written reviews 4759 43
Wikipedia attention 3067 15300
Pages 190 26

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