Il maialino di marzapane

Sentient flowers, a singing bee, and a lovelorn owl are just a few of the peculiar creatures found in Hoban's unconventional tribute to the beauty of life and inevitability of death, from which life springs anew.

Golly gosh what did I just read?! I expected a story about a small marzipan pig, maybe making friends or philosophizing about life, or finding happiness in being eaten by someone extra-ordinary or.. you know, that sort of story. Instead what I got is almost a sweeping epic, with various characters who Leggi tutto

I am six. This is what I think of The Marzipan Pig. It starts with a marzipan pig who falls behind a couch. He has been sitting there for days, and weeks, and months when he hears a nibbling sound. He thinks, "Yay, rescue! Help is coming!" He imagines there will be a party after he's found, and he be Leggi tutto

Technically, I didn't read this book. It was read to me. By Tim Curry. Courtesy of a 1990 minimally animated TV short I watched. After flipping through the book though, I highly recommend getting your hands on the TV version instead. I'm a big fan of audiobooks, especially for children, and Curry is Leggi tutto

Fans of Russell Hoban's work will be prepared for the masterful language and the beauty and sweetness and sadness. Love, and longing. The occasional unexpected strange violence. And the humor, too--don't forget that. So, it's about all the true things in life. In 48 pages. And appropriate for kids.

This book wasn't published until long after I was reading children's books on a regular basis; if I'd read it as a child, it would have been a favorite. A marzipan pig falls beneath a couch, and is never found. Sniff. Well, not until he's eaten by a mouse. A mouse who falls in love with a grandfather Leggi tutto