This is not Charlotte's Web. I knew that, and was not at all surprised when the pig died. I was, none the less, disappointed. It was bad enough the pig had to die, why did the dad? I enjoyed the first chapter or two, when Rob saved the cow and her calfs, but I honestly didn't care about the characte...
This was a lovely little book. I read my copy of A Day No Pigs Would Die to tatters, and I read a couple of the Soup books, but somehow failed to pick up anything else by Peck. This is a little book of reminiscences, of people and jobs and places that have contributed his life, but I wouldn't call i...
went into this with a Dandelion Wine mentality. I expected another story about a boy teetering on the brink of adulthood and childhood. This story was that and much more. The story focuses around Robert. A twelve-year-old boy living on a farm in Vermont. He acquires a pig, which he loves because it ...
The title makes me picture militant pigs, refusing to die just to please the humans and their love for bacon and ham.
Fuck this book, you guys. Just, eff you, book. I hate you.