Hogsel And Gruntel

by Dick King-Smith, Liz Graham-Yooll

Six stories about an assortment of animals, including "Little Red Riding Pig," "Goldipig and the Three Bears," and "The Princess and the Pig"

Genres: Fairy Tales, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1997

About the author

Dick King-Smith was born and raised in Gloucestershire, England, surrounded by pet animals. After twenty years as a farmer, he turned to teaching and then to writing children's books.

Dick writes mostly about animals: farmyard fantasy, as he likes to call it, often about pigs, his special favorites. He enjoys writing for children, meeting the children who read his books, and knowing that they get enjoyment from what he does.

Among his well-loved books is Babe, The Gallant Pig, which was recently made into a major motion picture, and was nominated for an Academy Award.

Dick lived with his wife in a small 17th-century cottage, about three miles from the house where he was born.

Reviews

[Tami]

Fun, silly, light-hearted animal stories by author of BABE.
Nice range of animals[dinosaurs, elephants, pigs…]
Easily accessible for ages 3-4 to 7 especially.
Some fractured fairytale-type/some fable[message]
Overall nice read-aloud or independent read for younger audience.

[Cynthia Egbert]

As I was reading these stories to my grand niece over the past few weeks I was delighted by them and laughed often. She was not as amused. I finally realized that she didn't have the cultural context to appreciate them because she didn't know the original stories that they are satirizing. Sigh.