The Great Pig Escape - Hardcover

Christelow, Eileen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395669731 ISBN 13: 9780395669730

Publisher: Clarion Books, 1994

Synopsis

Bert and Ethel have a long truck drive to market, and when they arrive, the pigs they intended to sell have mysteriously disappeared.

About this title

About the Author:

Eileen Christelow has created numerous fun and funny picture books, including the Five Little Monkeys series, Author, and most recently, Letters from a Desperate Dog. She and her husband, Ahren, live in Vermont. For more information visit www.christelow.com.

From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 3-Bert and Ethel grow the best vegetables for miles around. Then Bert decides that they should raise pigs instead. His six piglets do well and grow quickly, and, when they overhear plans to take them to market, they plot their escape. And so the fun begins: they get out of the truck two by two, take clothes from a line and from a sidewalk-sale rack, and, thus disguised, board a Florida-bound bus, leaving the baffled Bert and Ethel behind. Months later the post office receives a box from Florida addressed to "the people missing hats, pants, dresses, shirts...and pigs." The pigs have returned everything, along with a postcard to Bert and Ethel with the message, "Oink!" The cartoon illustrations, executed in watercolor and pen and ink with a loose, sketchy line and light, bright colors, are filled with humor. Facial expressions are effectively conveyed with just a few dots and lines. The uncluttered composition allows children to focus on essential elements, such as a pig running off with the tailgate bolt and the posters of the lost articles and livestock on a bulletin board in a cafe. Observant readers will laugh as they spot the dressed-up pigs hitchhiking, walking around town, blending in with the townspeople. Even the endpapers are jolly. The lively, funny text employs vigorous verbs and moves along at a rapid pace. Whether listening in a small group or one-on-one, children will chortle over the antics of these clever porkers.
Cynthia K. Richey, Mt. Lebanon Public Library, Pittsburgh, PA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0395669731
• ISBN 13: 9780395669730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 40