Three big hogs

by Daniel Pinkwater

While searching for a comfortable new home, three domestic hogs run into some unexpected and alarming situations, including hostile residents and police, a butcher's shop, and a fierce forest hog.

40 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1975

About the author

Daniel Manus Pinkwater is an author of mostly children's books and is an occasional commentator on National Public Radio. He attended Bard College. Well-known books include Lizard Music, The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Fat Men from Space, Borgel, and the picture book The Big Orange Splot. Pinkwater has also illustrated many of his books in the past, although for more recent works that task has passed to his wife Jill Pinkwater.

Reviews

[Phil J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another hard-to-find early Pinkwater book. It's relatively normal, compared to books like The Terrible Roar or Pickle Creature. The story is straightforward: Three big hogs are suddenly given their freedom. They search for someone to take care of them before learning to take care of themselves. The art is something else. A lot of Pinkwater's art has an outsider-artist vibe, but this art is even looser than usual. Nothing is static or symmetrical, and some of the drawings of the pigs are kind of uncanny. Given that Pinkwater attended art school, I assume that this is a conscious choice.

[Kevin Hogan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Early Pinkwater. Enjoyable, but not yet brilliant.

[Faete · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such an adorable book and it made me so happy! If only we could all just eat acorns and apples and sleep wherever we jolly well pleased. :)

[Scott · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute story about three hogs who are abandoned by a farmer and their adventures trying to find a new home.