Pig Pickin' (Moose and Hildy)
Grade 1-3–This easy, transitional chapter book features the characters fromMoose's Big IdeaandMoose Crossing(both Marshall Cavendish, 2005). Hildy the pig asks Moose to go with her to a pig pickin' down South. Thinking that it is a beauty contest, she buys a special dress and shoes. Moose, however, is suspicious and discovers that Wendell's Pig Pickin' is a well-known pork barbecue. While Wendell is fattening Hildy up with pizza and ice cream, Moose comes up with a plan to save her. He keeps substituting her dress for larger sizes and her shoes for smaller sizes, so that Wendell will think she is sick. Readers will enjoy the lighthearted humor and playful, mostly full-page pencil and gray-wash drawings.–Marilyn Ackerman, Brooklyn Public Library, NYCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.