Just One More Story - Hardcover

Dugald Steer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525462155 ISBN 13: 9780525462156

Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers, 1999

Synopsis

One story is never enough for this mother pig's group of little ones in a colorfully illustrated tale, which includes five mini books of bedtime tales bound onto the pages of the book.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

"Once upon a time, there was a little pig who loved listening to stories," and that is no exaggeration, since the wee porker (along with his squealing-prone sister) refuses to go to sleep without being read four bedtime tales "about the olden days, when pigs were kings and walked in golden gowns." Mother Pig obliges with her pig's-eye view of the Frog Prince (here the amphibious hero starts out as a "nasty and horrible" boy), the Ugly Duckling, Cinderella and the Prince and the Pauper. What makes this volume from a British team more than just tales-within-a-tale is its novelty format: each of the four bedtime books from which Mother Pig reads is reproduced as a miniature, multi-page volume that's literally pasted onto the spread where it is introduced. The end result should be hog heaven, but the prose is polite and bland (except for the Pig Prince's characterization as an "ugly boy," which seems mean-spirited), so the comic potential of the framing tale or the porcine parodies goes unrealized. It's left to Moseng's pictures to bring home the bacon, which they do with an endearing goofiness. Ages 4-8. (Nov.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-A collection of stories that a mother pig reads to her piglets. The selections themselves are retellings of familiar fairy tales with pigs as characters, e.g., "The Pig Prince," "The Ugly Pigling." These tales appear in little booklets glued onto double-page spreads that show the mother interacting with her youngsters. The illustrations are simple and appealing for young children, and they can actually turn the pages of the smaller books. Teachers and librarians may want to consider this effort as an addition to other fairy-tale variations. It will be fun for read-aloud, but be sure children know the real characters before they pig out on these little porkers.
Susan Knell, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, KS
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0525462155
• ISBN 13: 9780525462156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 16
• Illustrator: Elisabeth Moseng