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32 pp.
| Little |
September, 2002 |
TradeISBN 0-316-36513-0$$15.95
(4)
K-3
When Toot doesn't come back from his morning walk, his friend Puddle goes looking for him and ends up in France, where Toot has traveled because he "had a whim." Following another whim, the pigs go mountain-climbing in Nepal before returning home. While this genial story has a couple of abrupt transitions, Hobbie's watercolors skillfully portray the pigs and the multiple settings.