Albert and Lila
Edition: Turtleback School & Library ed.
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Translated from: ger
Translation of: Albin und Lila
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780613511025
Subjects: General; Lifestyles - Farm Life & Ranch Life; Social Issues - Friendship; Social Issues - Peer Pressure; Juvenile Fiction; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Children: Grades 1-2
First sentence: ONCE UPON A TIME there was an old farmer who kept a great many pigs and chickens.
Description: Once there was a farm where many pigs and many chickens lived in cordial but distant contentment. They were all very polite to each other, but no pig ever played with a chicken and no chicken ever played with a pig. Not, that is, until Albert meets Lila. Both are outcasts: Albert ridiculed because he is the only white pig on the farm and Lila exiled from the henhouse because she is too old to lay eggs. Naturally, the other animals shake their heads over this odd couple. But Albert and Lila don't care. They're having too much fun together. And when they come up with a cunning plan to outwit the fox, they transform the farm into a safe and happy haven filled with friendship and fun for all.