TCL Call#: nonfiction 636.4 MONTGOMERY

Madeleine - 4 stars
This book blends Montgomery's experience raising her pet pig Christopher Hogwood with her personal experiences with her parents and her travels while writing her varied books on the world's animals. There's literally something for everyone. Animal lovers will delight in her pig stories as well as her ventures across the planet to investigate species like emus and man eating tigers. People people will empathize with her contentious relationship with her mother and her agony over losing her beloved father. There's food. There's love. And there's redemption. What more could you want? Aside from your own pig at the end.