That was part of the lore over here, too, before (I imagine) political correctness made it improper to imply that a wolf might eat a pig.

Sigh.

But speaking of fairy tales, I would really like to hear from anyone who has the Steve Allen book from the early fifties "Fairy Tales for Hip Kids." In its version of the three little pigs, the pigs are musicians, and has something like

"at the last possible moment, the cool little pig made a real purple-light shack out of clarinet reeds and scotch tape."

Later, the wolf knocks a brick down the chimney, and it hits the pot of boiling water.

"The wolf said, 'what was that?' and the cool little pig said 'B-Flat, and it's your chorus! Fall in!' And fall in he did...."
I would love to see that book!