Desert Hawk Books

 

The Three Little Javelinas

by Susan Lowell
illustrations by Jim Harris

 

 

Hardcover

10.5" x 9"
32 Pages
Ages 3­8
Fully illustrated in color

Quantity:  $15.95 & S/H  

 

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.

Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs, but now you're going to meet the three little javelinas (pronounced ha-ve-LEE-nas)—lovable, wild, southwestern cousins of pigs. Living in homes built out of tumbleweeds and saguaro ribs (from the fallen giant cacti), the first two javelinas are soon running from the hungry coyote, who had hoped to eat them with red chile sauce. And where do they go for shelter? Why, to their wise sister's house, made strong with adobe bricks.

This hilarious fractured fairytale has become a picture book classic and is Rising Moon's most popular book—adored by both adults and children. Dressed in cowboy duds and prepared for life in the rugged desert, these characters are more than any coyote bargained for.

Susan Lowell lives in Tucson, AZ and is also the author of Los Tres Pequeños Jabalíes, and The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit.

Jim Harris lives in Mesa, CO and is also the illustrator of Los Tres Pequeños Jabalíes, Slim and Miss Prim, and The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit.