Who FIRST wrote the "The Three Little Pigs?"?

Question

Or if anyone knows the author of a version. Please list the publisher, year published, where it was published (state, city, country), the the authors' full name, and your sources. (If possible for any of these.)

Answer 1

"The Three Little Pigs" is NOT one of the Grimms' folk tales. It is similar in some ways to their "Wolf and Seven Young Kids," [meaning goats], but definitely not the same story.

The version we are most familiar with is English in origin. Native English folk tales, especially those involving talking animals, tend to be more fanciful, more humorous, and somewhat more light-hearted than most of the Grimms' stories. This is true of "The Three Little Pigs."

The earliest version we have in print is from Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps [1843], but it became popular and has been handied down to children in English-speaking countries primarily from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs [1898].

Jacobs' collection is available in several versions now in print and even more at used/rare bookstores. It's also available online at Project Gutenberg. You might also want to consider Classic Fairy Tales by Peter and Iona Opie. It has the original story and critical comments on the history of the story (and some twenty other such stories).

Answer 2

During the middle ages and up through the renaissance owls were symbols of dirtiness and mental instability. There was an old-school episode of Sesame Street that featured that song. In the skit the muppet "singing" the song was a grumpy old man who kept getting woke up by the three little birds singing their sweet songs, their melodies pure and true. Everytime I hear that song I picture the three little birds waking people up around dawn and everytime I hear it I get the giggles. Partly because the three little birds were so comically insistent in the Sesame Street skit but mostly because Bob is right, every little thing IS gonna be alright :)

Answer 3

The Three Little Pigs was one of many folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Answer 4

the fable of the three little pigs seem to follow the course and lessons taught by Aesop's fables. they are lessons that used animals to teach us lessons about life. j t plummer

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure that it was the Brother's Grimm, but I'm not sure. I hope this helps you some! Merry Christmas.