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McDermott, Gerald

Pig-Boy: A Trickster Tale from Hawai'i

32 pp. | Harcourt | April, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-15-216590-1 $16.00
(2) K-3 Pig-Boy (an embodiment of shape-shifter Kamapua'a) is a winsome, soft-purple piglet with a bristly back and dirty snout whose appetite leads to trouble: namely, eating the king's chickens. McDermott's simple figures--set off by swaths of brilliant tropical greens and blues on heavy watercolor paper that provides texture--have a strength that doesn't detract from their humor or from the liveliness of Pig-Boy's mischief.
Reviewer: Joanna Rudge Long | Horn Book Magazine Issue: July, 2009

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