The great thing about my kids is that they really do love to read! And one thing about that is that I can organize books so that we can learn life lessons through books. We can read two sides to the story or different versions of a story to do a little bit of critical thinking and come up with our own understanding about that story. Here is an example of this.
Today we listened to a CD and read the book of The Three Little Pigs. After it was finished I talked about how there are many versions of The Three Little Pigs and why that might be. I gave some examples of the different versions I can remember from our reading and from my own childhood.
After that we read this book. The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka is a story of the Three Little Pigs from the Wolfs' point of view. It's a different story all together and we can see after reading the first book how some of the things that occurred in the story could have been taken differently.
Once finished, we talked about how they were different stories and how the Wolf could have been correct about how the story could have been twisted around to make him look like the Big Bad Wolf. And we talked about how sometimes when we read something, see something on T.V. or get told something by people around us we might want to make a judgment right away. We talked about how there are usually many sides to one story and that it's not fair to judge someone, because no matter what there could always be more to the story than what we see or are told.
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