by Maurice Sendak
We got this from the library this week because James Marshall (of George and Martha fame) and Maurice Sendak (Where the Wild Things Are, duh) are both old favorites, and we were not at all disappointed. Swine Lake is about a down-on-his luck wolf who stumbles into an unfamiliar part of town, lucks i...
I really wanted to like this more than I did. I'm a big fan of Maurice Sendak and I'm afraid to say his illustrations look a little sloppy here. And the story seemed overlong and flat. I think there are a lot funnier plays on the pig/wolf conflict out there.