Both Brian and M Wangsgard recommended this book as uplifting and fun. I thought I'd give it a try despite finding this author slightly annoying when I read her octopus book. I hoped she would do better with a pig story, and besides, the Wangsgards loved it, so, I gave it a try.
It was an okay book with some fun descriptions and a lot of diversions to the author's other adventures. The good good pig is their pet at home, but the author travels a lot researching other animals, and these stories came into this story frequently. She also included some interesting pig history and pig knowledge that was interesting.
I'm not sure precisely what it is that annoys me about this author. She seems a good person, and a real community organizer. That I admire. I think what gets me is her continual attempts to attribute greater intelligence and human qualities into this pig than the evidence warrants. Granted, I'm not there, and maybe this pig really did have different grunts to greet individual people, but I find that hard to believe. I helped raise many pigs, and never had a glimmer of what she describes! Still, it makes a nice story, and it certainly held my interest. She certainly went all out in giving this pig a great life, including spa days. Maybe that's what was annoying? So many people need kindness; and this pig got so much... Yet she also included the neighborhood kids in the pig's care, so that was a plus.
I also liked the description of the small New England community in which the author lives. She and her husband have created a nice life, it seems. It was fun to read about these country farmers and their neighbors...
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