The Horn Book Guide

PRESCHOOL

Lindgren, Barbro

Oink, Oink Benny

32 pp. | Farrar/R&S | April, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-91-29-66855-1 $16.00

(2) PS Translated by Elisabeth Kallick Dyssegaard. Illustrated by Olof Landström. Benny (Benny's Had Enough!, Benny and the Binky) totes his brother to the mudhole where, inevitably, little brother is pushed in. Comically, Benny reacts by flinging himself in so he can be rescued and comforted, too. With a palette as suitably earthy as the sticks and potatoes that constitute Benny's favorite toys, Landström's cartoons revel in the pig brothers' free-spirited joy.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2008