The story that goes along with the musical piece by Prokofiev. The pop-up illustrations are nicely done, but the story is disturbing, at least to me: the wolf swallows a duck whole at the beginning and you can faintly hear it quacking in the wolf's stomach at the end. While I'm glad that Peter is not eaten and that the wolf ends up in a zoo instead of being shot thanks to Peter's cleverness, I don't think what happens to the duck is cute. The book has two flaps in front that nearly meet in the center; the book is closed by tying the red shoelace strings attached to the flaps.