[LM_NET] HIT: title of cumulative tale

[Amy Self <librariangelist@YAHOO.COM>]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about
the tale concerning the pig that won't cross the
stile.  Here are the responses I received if anyone
else is curious:

It's Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy by James Aylesworth

That is one of Judy Young's stories. She is the story
teller at Silver
Dollar City. The story is The Old Woman and Her Pig on
page 195 of 
Ozark
Tall Tales by Richard and Judy Dockrey Young. Good
story.

The Old Woman and Her Pig.  It was in my Book of
Knowledge (1959 
edition).  Volume 1.

I'm betting that you got the answer to your question
this morning (LM_NET Digest is slower than individual
messages). But in case you didn't, here are the books.
First off, the old woman says, "Pig won't jump over
the stile, and I won't get home tonight." A stile is a
sort of step that you use to climb over a fence,
usually in England, so you can get over it, but that
cows won't be able to.
I used to tell this story, The Old Woman and Her Pig,
an old English folktale retold by Joseph Jacobs, to my
Kindergartners every year & then we'd act it out. My
favorite version was the one by Paul Galdone--it's the
most faithful to the original--though the Aylesworth
version is adorable. Here are all the versions I know:
Aylesworth, Jim. Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy. Scholastic,
1999.
Galdone, Paul. The Old Woman and Her Pig. McGraw-Hill,
1960.
Kimmel, Eric A. The Old Woman and Her Pig. Holiday
House, 1992.
Lamont, Priscilla. The Troublesome Pig. Crown, 1985.
Litzinger, Rosanne. The Old Woman and Her Pig.
Harcourt, 1993. /

It's "The Old Woman and her Pig" by Joseph Jacobs
(English traditional 
tale
author). Online text 
http://www.authorama.com/english-fairy-tales-6.html

I think it's a stile, some sort of gate. I've heard it
as the old woman 
and the pig. I'm sure, as many folk tales, it has
several names.

That is a poem I loved as a child, it is "The old
woman and her pig."

http://www.authorama.com/english-fairy-tales-6.html
Here is one version.  Generally, it's the pig or piggy
who won't go 
over the stile, rather than the sty.

The Old Woman and Her Pig (illus by Paul Galdone)
The Old Woman and Her Pig (Eric Kimmel version)
I like both versions for different reasons.

There are many variations of this story.  The Old
Woman and Her Pig; an old English folktale by Rosemary
Litzinger is one and 2 others with the same title are
written by Eric A. Kimmel and Anne Rockwell.

Thanks again.

Amy Self, Library Media Specialist
White Pine School (K-8)
White Pine, TN
librariangelist@yahoo.com

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