The wolf does in fact eat the pigs!

So we've bought the kids some Spanish-language storybooks along the lines of "my first trip to the doctor" and the Three Little Pigs. Both books have been fairly true to Spanish life, in their own way. In the doctor book, the M.D. takes a look in the sick kid's mouth and without further tests, prescribes antibiotics (approximately what happened last week with Seth -- although for an unbelievably low cost and extremely high convenience). And in the Three Little Pigs, the first two pigs actually die. Or more accurately, they are "gobbled up" (zamparado) by the lobo. In U.S. versions, the first two pigs rarely expire from their stupidity--mostly they are shunted off through authorial sleights of hand (in one book, by David Wiesner, the pigs actually move into 4-D space). Jon's theory goes something like "It's such a ham-based culture, no wonder they're killed off." My theory is that it says something profound about the way we choose to teach our children.