Meet Wild Boars - Softcover

Sophie Blackall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141500387 ISBN 13: 9780141500386

Publisher: PUFFIN (PENG), 2006

Synopsis

Meet Boris, Morris, Horace and Doris, four rude, smelly, bad-tempered boars. Never, ever let them into your home. You have been warned! 'Meet Wild Boars' is written and illustrated by award-winning Meg Rosoff and Sophie Blackall.

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About the Author

Meg Rosoff is the author of the acclaimed novel How I Live Now. She lives in London, England, with her family.

Sophie Blackall is the illustrator of several books, including Ruby's Wish, for which she received the Ezra Jack Keats Award, among other honors. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* PreS-Gr. 2. Rosoff, winner of the 2005 Michael L. Printz Award for her YA novel How I Live Now (see The Booklist Interview, p.1289), does a 180 in this picture book about dirty, stinky, mean boars. Yet there is a thread between the two books. Both are bitingly funny and deeply satisfying--each on its own level, of course. Morris, Boris, Horace, and Doris don't like others, and don't want others to like them. Consequently, being polite to Boris results in a tusk in the butt. If you try to help Horace with his mittens, he'll make a nasty smell and snort with laughter. Doris may be the worst case, though--the stinkiest, ugliest, bossiest boar of all. If the boars say they'll be nice when they visit your home, don't believe them. They'll do everything from soaking in your toilet to cutting the string off your puppets. Doris will eat your stuffed animals. So, everyone agrees that there is no such thing as a nice wild boar, but--as the final picture shows--you may run into one that is sweet ("though chances are that you won't"), and then you will be amazed. Blackall's roll-on-the-ground-in-laughter illustrations are incisively rendered in ink and gouache. There's not a bad habit, predilection, or odor that isn't described or drawn, and the boars' sly reactions to the havoc they cause are priceless. Let's hope for more from this disgustingly delightful group. Wild, they may be. Bores, they are not. Ilene Cooper
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Edition details

• Publisher: PUFFIN (PENG)
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141500387
• ISBN 13: 9780141500386
• Binding: Paperback