Piggybook

Illus. in full color. "Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who,

outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the

house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her

workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are

pigs.' With the cooking and housework untended, they soon turn genuinely

porcine, a transformation Browne foreshadows with pig faces on the wallpaper,

vases, fireplace, phone. As in most of Browne's art, there is more than a

touch of irony and visual humor here. Fun to read aloud."-- _Bulletin, Center

for Children's Books._