Another AWESOME book! Two good book in one week...wonderful! This book was about a pig whose wife Paprika died and he lived a pretty uncomplicated life as the author puts it. Then one night a storm came and he woke up and there happened to be an elephant that escaped from the circus in his house. He ends up rescuing him from the zoo and in the long run they end up saving each others life. It was a book around friendship and imagination. The illustrations were awesome and very entertaining. one side of the page was sketched and the other side was a painted illustration. It almost looked like it was done by a computer, it looked so real and 3D. The colors that the illustrator used were very bright and eye appealing. The story was very heart warming also. There was a lot of predicting and foreshadowing that could be done in the book. A great sentence to predict to would be at the beginning, "Being all those perfect things, Pete might have run for the hills if he had known what was coming that night." The book had a pretty simple setting and there were only two characters so it was pretty easy to follow and understand. It was a very abstract story and it was very light, airy and happy. It was fun to read and you could read it multiple times because you could pick up a new detail in the illustrations every time. I would definitely recommend this book to everyone and I am going to check out other books by the author. As I was reading about the author in the back of the book, it said that the book started with his daughters sketch at a restaurant. She told him the story that she had been thinking up and later he wrote a book based on her idea, so it was a father-daughter created story which also touches my heart. People have great imaginations and creativity.
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