Hugh Pine and Something Else - Hardcover

Van De Wetering, Janwillem

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395492165 ISBN 13: 9780395492161

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1989

Synopsis

Hugh Pine, a porcupine, takes his first vacation when he accompanies his human friend, Mr. McTosh, to Brooklyn, New York.

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From School Library Journal:

Kindergarten-Grade 3-- Mr. McTosh takes his child-like porcupine friend, Hugh, on vacation to the big city, where Hugh is astounded to learn of all the "something else" outside his happy woodland/village home. They visit a fast-food restaurant, ride an elevator, climb into a skyscraper, visit a museum, and stay in a city apartment. Hugh meets a spoiled dog, cat, and parrot, all of whom are hostile to his intrusion into their comfortable home. They become friends, but insist that Hugh foil the bullying bulldog and crows in the neighborhood. True to his nature, Hugh will not be pushed around, but he knows that the best way is peaceful. He wisely teaches the pets the value of diplomacy and friendship before happily resuming life in his tree, having been enriched by his trip but glad to be home. Some readers may find the overwhelming sweetness and easy solutions cloying, but the book does continue to explore Hugh's delight in the world's wonders from a five-year-old's perspective. --Anne Osborn, Riverside Public
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

From the creators of Hugh Pine and Hugh Pine and the Good Place comes another fond story about that curmudgeonly, upright-walking porcupine. When Hugh's friend Mr. McTosh describes his vacation as "Something Else," (meaning something other than the dull, daily routines of non-vacation time), the porcupine decides that he, too, needs one. So he travels to New York City to stay with Mr. McTosh's sister (who keeps calling Hugh "nephew"), meeting the household pets, Fong and Nya, and a neighborhood bulldog appropriately named Bully. Hugh, Mr. McTosh and readers will be equally relieved to get back to the Maine woods . In this book, Hugh's wisdom lacks a little of the pungency on which his reputation is based. However, there are singular delights among the pages, not the least of which is Hugh's succinct clobbering of the Pekingese, Fong. Ages 8-up.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0395492165
• ISBN 13: 9780395492161
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 72
• Illustrator: Munsinger Lynn