Alexander attempts to request sugar from each of his neighbors, the three pigs, for baking a cake for his grandmother.

Alexander accidentally kills the first and second pigs after his sneezes destroy their straw and stick houses.

The third pig in the brick house refuses to give any sugar and insults Alexander's grandmother.

Alexander states that the news coverage of the events was highly exaggerated, leading to his reputation as the Big Bad Wolf.

[3] This book was later adapted into a Weston Woods Studios animated short in 2008 with the voice of Paul Giamatti as the wolf.