The Three Little Pigs
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Grade 2 · Longer stories
The Three Little Pigs
Retold by PlayOwl from the English folk tale
Three pigs build three houses: one of straw, one of sticks and one of bricks. Then a wolf with a very big breath comes knocking.
- 17 pages
- 854 words
- Medium read
- Retelling
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For grown-ups: what this book practices, and where it comes from
What this book practices
The English folk tale in new words, with short paragraphs, simple dialogue and a rhyme to join in on. A gentle telling: nobody is eaten or hurt, the pigs look after one another, and the puffed-out wolf runs away for good.
- Level
- Longer stories: Short paragraphs and simple dialogue, with a rhyme that repeats
- Phonics focus
- -ed endings, consonant blends, ck endings
- Themes
- Folk tale, Animals, Family, Making things
- After the story
- A short activity checks understanding, then a prompt to tell a grown-up about the book.
Levels are PlayOwl's own design guidelines for each grade, not a certified reading level. In I'll Read, PlayOwl records that a child turned every page; it cannot hear whether the words were read.
Credit and rights
Retold by PlayOwl from the English folk tale. Source: The Three Little Pigs by English folk tale (collected by Joseph Jacobs) (1890).
The words are new PlayOwl writing that follows a story in the public domain. PlayOwl claims no rights in the underlying story.
- Adaptation
- Retold for PlayOwl in 2026 from the English folk tale of the three little pigs. PlayOwl's telling is gentler than the old versions: the first two pigs escape to their brother's house, nobody is eaten, and the wolf runs away with a stung tail. The tale is folklore with no author. The Jacobs collection was published in 1890 and Joseph Jacobs died in 1916, so that printed version is in the public domain. Only the events of the tale were followed, and no edition's wording was copied; the traditional rhymes were replaced with new ones.
- Cover
- Drawn in code for PlayOwl in 2026 with the Read with Olly illustration kit. Original work owned by PlayOwl.
- Illustrations
- Drawn in code for PlayOwl in 2026 with the Read with Olly illustration kit. The pictures do not follow the pictures of any edition or film. Original work owned by PlayOwl.
- Narration
- Spoken by the reader's own device voice. PlayOwl ships no recording. No recorded work exists.
- Text
- Written for PlayOwl in 2026 as a new retelling. Every sentence is new wording, and the rhymes spoken by the wolf and the pigs were written new for this book. Original wording owned by PlayOwl. The underlying story is covered by the adaptation record.
