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Kim, Seo-Young. “A Study of the Picturebook The Three Pigs based on Dresang’s Radical Change Theory.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 41.3 (2015): 23-41. Eliza T. Dresang's Radical Change theory is a way of understanding books with characteristics reflecting the interactivity, connectivity, and access of the digital world. Books in the digital world use visual information in place of words and vice versa. The colorful, boldly graphic nature of the contemporary digital environment is reflected in words and pictures which together convey powerful stories and attract readers of all ages. Such distinctive features of the picturebooks in digital age present pictures and text in a juxtaposition that requires a hypertextual approach to thinking and reading. They also promote a nonlinear, highly interactive reading experience. Dresang identifies three types of changes occurring in contemporary literature for youth, which are changing forms and formats, changing perspectivies and changing boundaries. These are all related to the connectivity, interactivity and access of the digital world and all covering in the picturebook The Three Pigs. Therefore, in this paper, I would like to study how Radical Change theory is applied in the picturebook The Three Pigs and what it meant to young readers. (Hannam University)