Auerbach, Annie Plants vs. Zombies: The Three Little Pigs Fight
Back Illustrated by Charles Grosvenor
and Jeremy Roberts Harper, 2013. $4.99
PICTURE BOOK Content: PG.
The
three little pigs are visited by a wolf, but he doesn't stick around because
the zombies run him off. The first little
pig tries to plant peashooters and other vegetables that he can fight off the
zombies with, but it’s not enough. He
goes to his second brother’s home and they fight off the zombies as best they
can, but it isn’t until they get to the third brothers home, with a big garden
full of zombie fighting plants, that they finally succeed. They celebrate by soaking in a mud bath.
This is a book loosely based on the Three Pigs
with the characters using the Plants vs. Zombies game vegetables as their
weapons. Besides the fact that using
vegetables to kill zombies makes no sense (it’s obviously part of the game), I
think the overall effect is weird. The
colors are bright and maybe if your readers are interested in the app game they
will be entertained by this story. It’s definitely
for a limited audience.
EL (K-3) OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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