FICTION

Hogwash!

by Karma WILSON
978-0-31698-840-7.
COPY ISBN
PreS-K—Farmer wants to bathe all the animals, but the pigs just won't behave-all they want to do is wallow in the mud. And they tell him so, through a series of increasingly defiant rhyming signs. Farmer pulls every trick he can think of, enticing them with food, posing as a pizza deliveryman, even filling his crop-dust plane with shampoo and water and flying over them. When he crash-lands in the sty, though, Farmer finally learns the joy of a good mud bath. The mayhem is reminiscent of Doreen Cronin's Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type (S & S, 2000). While Wilson's rhyming tale is not as wildly original as that story, it's pleasantly bouncy, and McMullan's vibrantly expressive watercolor illustrations add to the fun.—Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD
A farmer decides to "spring-clean" his animals. He successfully washes the horses, ducks, and cows, but meets resistance at the pigpen. Voicing their sentiment on mud-written signs, the pigs, shown in McMullan's sassy watercolor illustrations, defy the farmer's attempts at bathing. Through the use of rhyme and clever pig-centric puns, Wilson creates an amusing standoff between farmer and hogs.
Reviewed by Kathleen Kelly MacMillan , Apr 01, 2011

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