The Little Pigs and the Sweet Rice Cakes

In America, every child knows the story of the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf, so they'll love reading about the pigs' Chinese counterparts. Told in a bilingual Chinese and English edition, this is the story of three little pigs whose appetites initially get the better of them. In a shared dream, they met an old man who tells them to deliver malt sugar candies to him a week before New Year's Eve. The next morning, they see some malt sugar candies on their kitchen table. The three little pigs completely forget the old man and eat every bit of them. When their mother comes home, she is very angry to discover all the candies gone. Seeing their mother unhappy, the three little pigs help her make more delicious malt sugar candies. When there is only a week left before Chinese New Year's Eve, their mother lays the malt sugar candies in front of the portrait of the Kitchen God and prays for the peace for the family. On seeing the portrait, the three little pigs realize that the old man in their dreams is actually the Kitchen God!