Synopsis
It's the three little pigs with a whole new twist! When three brothers (Pig, Pigger, and Piggest) meet three sisters (Witch, Witcher, and Witchest) the results are a muddy mess in which they all live sloppily ever after.
Author Rick Walton is well known for his highly entertaining illustrated books, which simultaneously teach children language arts principles. This rollicking tale is enhanced by the lively illustrations of Jimmy Holder. Now available for the first time in paperback, Pig, Pigger, Piggest is a book your whole family will love.
Rick Walton is the author of more than forty children's books. He lives with his wife and four children in Provo, Utah. Jimmy Holder is an illustrator who does work for magazines and advertising agencies, as well as illustrating children's picture books. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.
Publishers Weekly
In this unremarkable but good-humored rewriting of "The Three Little Pigs," three big pigsPig, Pigger and Piggestbuild correspondingly large castles, all of which are reduced to mudholes when each pig refuses to hand it over to the corresponding Witch, Witcher and Witchest who demands it. In the pat ending, the porcine brothers, delighted with their mudholes, propose marriage to the witches and promise to rebuild. Pictorial details continue the comparative rhetoric, boasting "cheap sheep" and "cheapest sheepest," etc. (each more absurdly broad than the last). Debut children's book illustrator Holder plays along with a jaunty, caricatured style. His slightly shiny, rotund pigsand similarly bulging bats, clouds and suits of armorgive the impression of having been inflated to the point of bursting. While Walton's (You Don't Always Get What You Hope For) playful progressive comparisons are enjoyably goofy (e.g., Pigger builds a "taller-waller, thicker-bricker castle" than Pig's tall-wall, thick-brick castle"), they don't quite sustain a narrative and grow monotonous, as nearly all refer to size. Perhaps not the funniest, it's funnier than many; and definitely a funny book. Ages 4-8. (Sept.)