Mr. Wolf's Pancakes

by Jan Fearnley

Book Overview

Mr Wolf fancies some tasty pancakes, but he doesn't know how to make them. He tries to ask his neighbours, but they are a mean and horrible lot who refuse to help. So he has to do everything by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158925354X
• ISBN13: 9781589253544
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Tiger Tales
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

I like this book alot

I don't agree with the person who said that this book has a bad moral or that it is odd. It is just suposed to be funny and it is! Don't take it so sereously.

Nasty People Get Theirs in the End!

I love this book! For once the Wolf is not shown to be the bad guy! I found this to be a very positive book showing that it is not a good idea to be nasty and greedy, even to towards characters that would normally be thought of as the bad guys. (When the Wolf won in the end my entire family cheered! You go Wolf!)

A Deliciously Delightful and Devilishly Clever Tale

If you and the kids are tired of sugar-sweet stories in which all the characters live happily ever after, then Jan Fearley's Mr Wolf could be just the anti-hero for you. Most of this delightful book is devoted to describing Mr Wolf's diligent efforts to assemble the ingredients for and then prepare a delicious stack of pancakes. As he is a rather inept chef with poor reading and writing skills, he seeks the advice and assistance of a host of well-known storybook characters (e.g., The Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood, etc.). Unlike most tales where the large fanged one is portrayed as 'big and bad', however, it is the (apparently) naive and innocent Wolf who encounters rejection, verbal barbs and outright hostility from the nursery world's equivalent of 'the bold and the beautiful'. But after suffering their many slings and arrows, he manages to produce some of the tastiest hotcakes in town. The slightest waft of their aroma is enough to bring all of Mr Wolf's so-called 'friends' knocking on his front door. He rather sheepishly lets them into his kitchen, where they set about devouring his lovingly concocted meal. Only after they have finished off every single pancake does the devilishly clever Mr Wolf turn the tables on this ungrateful and self-serving lot. And in the wink of an eye and flip of a page, he gobbles each and every one of the good-for-nothings down, thus having his cakes and eating them too! Three cheers for Mr Wolf - and Jan Fearnley! John, Kate and Elena Thompson

great book!

I just picked up this book in a store and had to buy it for my friends' kids. It is a great story with a few lessons to be learned and a good dose of humor. If you like the type of quirky humor in the "Dumb Bunnies" books (by Sue Denim), you'll love Mr. Wolf's Pancakes. Your kids will laugh out loud as they pick up the lessons on manners and determination- and I dare say you will enjoy the reading as well.