Big Bad Wolf Is Good

by Simon Puttock

Book Overview

Poor Wolf--he's so lonely Nobody wants to be his friend. Not the ducklings, not the goslings, not the fuzzy yellow chicks. Perhaps it's because I'm big and scary, he thinks. Perhaps it's because I'm... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439457491
• ISBN13: 9780439457491
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Big Bad Wolf's karma finally catches up with him.

With his oil painted canvas pictures, this is a book that expresses the greatness of imperfection. It's nice to see that all the lines don't have to be followed and all the areas don't have to be painted. It almost gives you that Winnie the Pooh's 100 Acre Wood feeling which is always a warm memory. The Big Bad Wolf makes a conscious decision to be good because being bad is so lonely. The poor wolf finds out that all the bad things he's done in his life are still following him regardless of his decision to be useful, good and do noble deeds. All the animals that he has been bad to assume that he is bad when they see him and don't give him a chance to prove he has really changed, they are all just afraid to get eaten. Thanks to a little lost duck, Big Bad Wolf proves to the mom and the duck's siblings that he can do good and requests, after he eats 11 cookies and drinks 3 cups of tea the mom duck offers him, that she call him the Big Good Wolf. This is a cute story about being a lonely bully who finally sees the error in his ways. The one thing I did find strange about this story is that all the other characters besides the wolf are ducks and chicks. Isn't the Big Bad Wolf a pig terrorizer?

It's good to see the good side of the big, bad, wolf ...

My three year old son is fascinated with the big, bad wolf. He loves the stories of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood, and many of his pretend-play games revolve around the evil antics of the big, bad wolf. When we went to the library he wanted a book about the big, bad wolf ... of course. On searching the database I found this book and thought it might be nice for him to see that even the big, bad, wolf can be good. He has really enjoyed this book about the wolf wanting to be good so someone will be his friend. On the last page the wolf asks the duck if he can be called the big, good wolf going forward, and the duck hugs him and says that he will always be the big, bad wolf, but he will always be good too. A very cute book, and if you like reading your little one's a book with a moral, this certainly has a good one.

Big Bad Wolf is good

Poor Wolf--he's so lonely! Nobody wants to be his friend. Not the ducklings, not the goslings, not the fuzzy yellow chicks. "Perhaps it's because I'm big and scary," he thinks. "Perhaps it's because I'm bad, bad, bad." Then he has a bright idea: What if he changes his ways and becomes good? What if he does a noble deed? But, none of the animals will listen when Wolf tries to tell them about his new plan. They just flee in terror, slamming the door right in his face. Then something really awful happens: one of the ducklings disappears and everybody thinks Wolf has eaten him all up. Can the Big Bad Wolf prove he didn't have duck for dinner--and bring the lost little baby safely home? A charming and delightfully fractured fairy tale about friendship, and a wonderful example for children that a person can change, with sweet and funny illustrations that will delight youngsters over and over again. Anchorage School District librarian