Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom
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Fakih, Kimberly Olson, High on the Hog, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1994. (Grades 4-7) When her parents go ahead to establish the family's new life in New York City, Trapp, age 12, stays behind with her great-grandparents in Iowa for the summer. Her beloved world of farm certainties - family, corn, hogs, and her baseball mitt - begins to shimmer in the heat as she discovers a 60-year-old family secret. She also discovers new ways to use the land by observing an elderly scientist (who turns out to be Trapp's biological great-grandmother) returning a field to prairie. Eventually, Trapp comes to understand the complex nature of the past and how families meet their needs and survive. Trapp's sense of family connectedness allows her to face, with a changed attitude, both her move to New York and the aging of her great-grandparents. |
| Galdone, Paul, The Three Little Pigs, Clarion, 1984. |
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Martin, Jacqueline Briggs, and Linda Wingerter, The Water Gift and the Pig of the Pig, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. An orphan girl discovers that she shares her grandfather's gift for finding things when their very clever pig disappears. |
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Numeroff, Laura Joffe, If You Give a Pig a Pancake, Harpercollins Juvenille Books, 1998. (Grades 4-7) This picture book shows what happens when a girl gives the little pig on her windowsill a plate of pancakes. One thing leads to another: pancakes to syrup, syrup to stickiness, stickiness to a bath, a bath to a rubber duck, the duck to homesickness for the pig's farm, homesickness to packing for the trip, packing to finding tap shoes, tap shoes to performing a dance, the dance to taking photos--and eventually to another plate of pancakes. |
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Scieszka, Jon, and Lane Smith, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs, Puffin, 1996. (Grades K-3) The "real" story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens - from the wolf's perspective. He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, with a sneezy cold, innocently trying to borrow a cup of sugar to make his granny a cake. Is it his fault those ham dinners - rather, pigs - build such flimsy homes? Sheesh. |
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Weisner, David, The Three Pigs, Clarion, 2001 (Grades K-3) Once upon a time three pigs built three houses, out of straw, sticks, and bricks. Along came a wolf, who huffed and puffed and blew the pigs right out of the story frame. One by one, the pigs exit the fairy tale's border and set off on an adventure of their own. Folding a page of their own story into a paper airplane, the pigs fly off to visit other storybooks, rescuing about-to-be-slain dragons and luring the cat and the fiddle out of their nursery rhyme. |
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Zemach, Margot, The Three Little Pigs: An Old Story, Sunburst, 1991 (Grades PreK-2) In this version, the pigs get eaten and stay that way; and after the wolf tries to trick the third pig (with turnips, apples, and the fair), he is cooked in a pot of soup. |
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