A story within a story is relayed in words and pictures when a little pig gives an account for her family of all the things that happened to her when she boarded the wrong bus for school: she took a shortcut through the forest ("How many times have we told you: never go into the forest alone!") and was snapped up by a hungry wolf who planned to cook her in a soup till the little pig outwitted him with a recipe for disaster. Wry details abound in both the pig's clever story and her family's responses to it throughout. (Ages 3-7)

Getting onto the wrong school bus was the pig's first mistake.Her second was choosing to take the path through the forest.The next thing she knows, a wolf has grabbed her and thrown her into a sack, all the while singing a song about soup.Lucky for the pig, she's smart and can read.She stalls for all the time she can, but pretty soon she realizes she'll have to use the dreaded Hog-Eye stare: Hog-eye! Hog-eye! Magic stare! Make him itchy everywhere.On his nose and in his hair.Even in his underwear!