Help, Pink Pig - Softcover

Adler, Carole S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380711567 ISBN 13: 9780380711567

Publisher: Avon Books, 1991

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Amanda returns to the magical "Little World" to get Pink Pig's help for her new friend Robbie, who finds new courage there, while Amanda learns to deal with the real world

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 4-6 --Amanda's lives for a time with her beloved grandmother, and then moves cross-country to be a latchkey child with her beautiful but critical mother in a strange, unfriendly apartment house. As in Good-bye, Pink Pig (Avon, 1986), her escape is through a tiny rose quartz pig that, instantaneously, can become warm and rubbery and converse with her. The pig is 11-year-old Amanda's ticket to Little World, where problems of good and bad knights and dragons are the overriding concerns. Back in the real world, two stereotypical playmates (Angel, an obnoxious bully-brat, and Robbie, her docile doormat), plus an assortment of one-dimensional parents plod through the plot. Despite the very real parental problems here, meager character development leaves readers unconvinced of the promised happy resolutions. The book, while reminiscent of Adler's The Silver Coach (Avon, 1988), is not as engaging a vehicle to fantasy. --Katharine Bruner, Brown Middle School, Harrison, TN
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

PW said of this sequel to Goodbye, Pink Pig , "Wrought with wisdom and sensitivity, Adler's unusual blend of allegory and realism allows readers to decide how much is imagined and how much is true." Ages 8-12.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0380711567
• ISBN 13: 9780380711567
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160