"Then along came a coyote. He ran through the desert so quickly and so quietly that he was almost invisible. In fact, this was only one of Coyote's many magical tricks. He laughed when he saw the tumbleweed house and smelled the javelina inside. "Mmm! A tender juicy piggy!" he thought. Coyote was tired of eating mice and rabbits. He called out sweetly, "Little pig, little pig, let me come in." "Not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin!" shouted the first javelina (who had a lot of hair on his chinny-chin-chin!) "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in! said Coyote. And he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew the little tumbleweed house away." -taken from The Three Little Javelinas

Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs, but now meet the three little javelinas and Coyote in this favorite retelling of the children's classic "Three Little Pigs", this time set in the landscape of the Southwest desert.

Susan Lowell, Words
Jim Harris, Illustrations
32 pp. Hardcover. Illustrations. 1992.