- Paperback: 32 pages
- Publisher: Egmont UK; Pap/Com edition (Feb 28 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1405238720
- ISBN-13: 978-1405238724
- Product Dimensions: 29.6 x 23.2 x 0.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #247,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
The Little Red Hen can keep her crusty old bread; Mr. Wolf has his sights on something a bit tastier--pancakes--in this picture book that celebrates comeuppance. Though Mr. Wolf fantasizes about flapjacks, he hasn't the first idea how to cook them--and he has trouble reading the Wolf It Down Recipe Book, besides. Mr. Wolf seeks assistance from his neighbors, but Chicken Little, Wee Willy Winkle, the Gingerbread Man, Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs all nastily refuse. Of course, when Mr. Wolf eventually whips up the pancakes all by himself, they demand a share of his culinary creation. Mr. Wolf, seemingly forgiving, lets the marauders into the kitchen--and then gobbles them all up, with pancakes on the side. Kids will love Fearnley's (Little Robin's Christmas) use of favorite characters as well as her sympathetic wolf and the savory surprise ending. Chipper watercolors depict a sunny storybook town where denizens shop at Old Mother Hubbard's General Store and Simple Simon's Pie & Cake Emporium. A gleeful twist on a nursery staple. Ages 5-7. (Jan.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
The tables are turned and the big bad wolf from traditional fairy tales is cast as a mild-mannered, aspiring cook in this hilarious topsy-turvy tale from Fearnley. Determined to assuage his yearning for pancakes, the gastronomically-challenged Mr. Wolf sets out to make a stack himself. However, the would-be chef discovers a staggering amount of hurdles that must be overcome before he can enjoy his repast: reading the recipe, making a list, purchasing the ingredients. Like the little red hen, Mr. Wolf requests help from his neighbors along the way, and these charactersChicken Little, Wee Willy Winkle, Gingerbread Man, and othershave shed their more benign personalities to reveal themselves as a rude, scurrilous bunch. Mr. Wolf retains his poise with each rebuff and ends up doing the work alone; when the pushy neighbors barge into his kitchen to share the food, Mr. Wolf enjoysin true fairy-tale fashionfar more than pancakes for his meal. Fearnley's light tone keeps the abrupt demise of the ill-mannered bunch from being morbid, and the switch in Mr. Wolf's demeanor, from polite to hungry, is more funny than frightful. The brightly hued illustrations conjure up an imaginary land that tickles the funnybone, where ``Little Jack's Plum Pies'' can be purchased from ``Simple Simon's Pie & Cake Emporium.'' Wryly funny and childlike. (Picture book. 4-8) -- Copyright ©2000, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Rude People Deserve to Die?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Mr. Wolf's Pancakes (Paperback)
My father bought this book for my three-year-old daughter on the recommendation of a bookstore staffer. The illustrations are nice, and I understand the point about not being rude, but, um... everyone is eaten by the wolf in the end. There's no softening of the fact that he ate all the rude people up and still had room for pancakes. And the moral is...? Don't be rude, or the predators among us will have a right to kill you? This is one odd book.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Nasty People Get Theirs in the End!,
By "zuzanny" (Shepparton, victoria Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mr. Wolf's Pancakes (Hardcover)
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!)
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Deliciously Delightful and Devilishly Clever Tale,
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This review is from: Mr. Wolf's Pancakes (Hardcover)
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
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