Everyone remembers the story of the Big Bad Wolf with Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf that blows those poor little pigs' houses down. But this time B.B. Wolf is trying to learn some manners so that he can go to a Storybook Tea that he is invited to. His friend the crocodile does whatever he can to try to teach B.B. Wolf good manners.
Croc and B.B. Wolf make up little songs to remember all of the things that he learns. One of them is, "Sip your tea and never slurp, say excuse me if you burp. Smale and have a lot of fun, but don't go biting anyone!" B.B. Wolf finally gets to his party where many other story book characters are at. After drinking a lot of tea, B.B. realizes that he has to burp but he forgets the phrase that he has to use. So after hurrying to find it in an etiquitte book, he is able to say it before he burps. He is seen as a very polite person. He even refuses to eat the gingerbread cookies because he could never eat a Gingerbread Boy.
As he is leaving he mentions that sometime he will come back and tell the librarian what really happened in the other books that he is in. But on his way home, as he pops a gingerbread cookie into his mouth, you realize he isn't as nice as he says.
I thought that this book was really clever and that the pictures were also very good. If you look in the background of the illustrations you see that there are things from other fairy tale stories as well. I think that kids will appreciate to see the "Big Bad Wolf" in a different light for once. It would be great for Kindergarten to Second grades and I think that it could get children into wanting to learn about etiquette.
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