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The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales

by Joseph Jacobs · graded reader

  • 5 chapters
  • 2,130 words
  • about 16 min
  • folk tales

Three little pigs build three houses, and a hungry wolf comes knocking. A little girl walks into the house of three bears. Henny-Penny thinks the sky is falling, and a round cake rolls away from everyone. Four favourite English folk tales.

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Once upon a time there is an old mother pig with three little pigs. She does not have enough food for them. So one day she says, "My dear children, you are big now. Go out into the world and find your own homes."

The first little pig walks along the road. He meets a man with some straw. "Please, man, give me that straw," he says. "I want to build a house." The man gives him the straw, and the little pig builds a house with it.

Soon a wolf comes to the house. He knocks at the door and says, "Little pig, little pig, let me come in."

"No, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!" says the little pig.

"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in!" says the wolf.

So he huffs, and he puffs, and he blows the house in. The little pig runs away as fast as he can.

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Chapters

  1. The Three Little Pigs · 4 min
  2. Apples and the Fair · 3 min
  3. Down the Chimney · 1 min
  4. The Three Bears · 4 min
  5. Henny-Penny and Johnny-Cake · 4 min

Translations

Word notes in Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Hindi. Paragraph translations in Turkish and Spanish. More languages are being added.

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