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Synopsis
Four piggy-style fairy tales in mini-books bound right onto the pages!
It's bedtime, and Mother Pig is trying to get her little ones to go to sleep. What better way than to read them a bedtime story? The trouble is, they like the first one so much that they ask for more and more, begging her for "just one more story!" The stories Mother Pig reads to her children are hilarious piggy-style retellings of favorite fairy tales in real mini-books bound right onto the pages throughout the book. These porcine reimaginings are sure to make little ones laugh out loud. They include: "The Pig Prince," "The Ugly Pigling" "Piggerella," and "The Prince and the Porker." The perfect bedtime read-aloud, Just One More Story offers five delightfully funny tales in one book--enough for even the most wide-awake little pig...or child!
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From Publishers Weekly
"Once upon a time, there was a little pig who loved listening to stories," and that is no exaggeration, since the wee porker (along with his squealing-prone sister) refuses to go to sleep without being read four bedtime tales "about the olden days, when pigs were kings and walked in golden gowns." Mother Pig obliges with her pig's-eye view of the Frog Prince (here the amphibious hero starts out as a "nasty and horrible" boy), the Ugly Duckling, Cinderella and the Prince and the Pauper. What makes this volume from a British team more than just tales-within-a-tale is its novelty format: each of the four bedtime books from which Mother Pig reads is reproduced as a miniature, multi-page volume that's literally pasted onto the spread where it is introduced. The end result should be hog heaven, but the prose is polite and bland (except for the Pig Prince's characterization as an "ugly boy," which seems mean-spirited), so the comic potential of the framing tale or the porcine parodies goes unrealized. It's left to Moseng's pictures to bring home the bacon, which they do with an endearing goofiness. Ages 4-8. (Nov.)
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From Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2-A collection of stories that a mother pig reads to her piglets. The selections themselves are retellings of familiar fairy tales with pigs as characters, e.g., "The Pig Prince," "The Ugly Pigling." These tales appear in little booklets glued onto double-page spreads that show the mother interacting with her youngsters. The illustrations are simple and appealing for young children, and they can actually turn the pages of the smaller books. Teachers and librarians may want to consider this effort as an addition to other fairy-tale variations. It will be fun for read-aloud, but be sure children know the real characters before they pig out on these little porkers.
Susan Knell, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherTemplar Publishing
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1840117087
- ISBN 13 9781840117080
- BindingPaperback
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