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베스트셀러인 Miss Spider의 작가 데이비드 커크의 재미있는 그림책입니다.

윤기나는 핑크색 피부를 지닌 아기돼지 비들은 깨끗한 것을 좋아합니다. 하지만 다른 친구 돼지들은 진흙탕 속에 들어가서 노는 것을 좋아하지요. 친구들이 진흙탕 속에서 뒹글고, 점프하면서 신나게 놀 동안 아기돼지 비들은 이들을 못마땅하게 쳐다봤지요.

친구돼지들은 신나게 놀고 있는데, 하지만 외톨이마냥 진흙탕 밖에서 혼자 누워있는 아기돼지 비들은 점점 외로워졌어요. 무엇보다도 날이 점점 뜨거워지면서 시원한 진흙탕물은 아기돼지 비들을 유혹했지요. 결국 아기돼지 비들의 선택은...

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Edition: Hardcover, 32 pages
ISBN-10: 0439305756
ISBN-13: 9780439305754
책 크기 : 19 cm x 15 cm



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Book Description
Is Little Pig, Biddle Pig simply too clean and pretty to stoop to mud-pool romps? After all, she is "Sweet as alfalfa / And grand as a queen." Conflicted by her desire to remain pink and glossy or to join those "wiggily wallowers" in the muck, lonely Little Pig grows more and more unhappy. Will she keep her snout up in the air just to avoid the muddy swine, or can this regal piglet get over herself and revel in the "glorious slop"?
David Kirk, creator of the Miss Spider and Little Miss Spider series, as well as the Biddle Books sequence (Little Bird, Biddle Bird, etc.), applies his unusual and striking style to great effect in this tiny tale. Every two-page spread shows a shiny full-bleed image of deliriously happy, filthy pigs or our posy pink heroine on one side, with a rhyming verse on the other, along with various clean critters shying away from the splashing mud. The momentum builds and children will keep turning pages to find out the answer--will she or won't she? And the heavenly sludgy coolness when she finally does succumb to the pleasure (come on, you knew she would)--is almost palpable.


Publishers Weekly
The newest star in the hand-sized paper-over-board Biddle Book series by David Kirk is Little Pig Biddle Pig, a fetching pink porker who is "pretty and clean,/ Sweet as alfalfa/ And grand as a queen." But she is also lonely until she joins the other mud-spattered pigs in the muck.


School Library Journal
Biddle Pig is no Olivia. Kirk's bold oil paintings and small complementary graphics on facing pages of text range from Disneyesque to disturbing. The theme of being lonely and vain versus being a happy conformist is loaded in this anthropomorphized morality play told in didactic verse ("Little pig, Biddle pig/Snout in the air-/Too fine to behave/Like the swine over there!") and Kirk patronizes his audience with leading questions, such as "Are you happy just sulking/All day on your own?/Is it worth staying pretty/And being alone?" Too wordy and preachy, this story will have a hard time finding an appreciative audience, even though everyone ends up sloppily happy.


Booklist
Little Pig is "pretty and clean / Sweet as alfalfa / and grand as a queen." But her cleanliness has a down side. The other pigs, who frolic and flop into "smelly brown slop," know Little Pig thinks she's too fine to muck about with them. Although Little Pig is happy she's the prettiest, she also realizes that the other pigs are having all the fun. It takes some convincing, but Little Pig finally leaps into the mud, where she finds out what being a pig is really about. Kirk, the creator of Miss Spider, offers another charmer in this small picture book. His preening pig will make children smile, especially when she gets down and dirty. The verse is remarkably good, and it's just the right length to hold the attention of little ones. The word biddle, which appears frequently, is also part of the series title, Biddle Books. That's the only affectation in a volume that otherwise has its audience nailed.