Mooshy Squooshy! The Piggy in the Puddle by Charlotte Pomerantz

SEE THE PIGGY,

SEE THE PUDDLE.

SEE THE MUDDY LITTLE PUDDLE.

SEE THE PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE

OF THE MUDDY LITTLE PUDDLE?

SEE HER DAWDLE, PLUMP AND LITTLE,

IN THE VERY MUDDY MIDDLE.

This can't be good! Piggy in her dainty little bonnet in a muddy puddle seems an anomalie. Whatever is she thinking?

Her brother Billy admonishes her sternly, but she continues to wiggle and giggle with glee, until Silly Billy gives in to his impulse, and joins her for a wallow.

From her tiny tea table, her mother exhorts her:

"FIDDLE FADDLE! GET OUT OF THERE! SKEDADDLE!"

Fuddy-duddy Daddy, in his plushy bathrobe with bar of soap in hand, has his plan.

"WHAT YOU NEED IS LOTS OF SOAP!"

BUT THE PIGGY ANSWERED,

"SQUISHY SQUASHY--NOPE!"

The Pig Family gives in and lets nature take its course, and they all succumb to the wish to wallow very merrily!

In this super silly rhyming story, author Charlotte Pomerantz gives in to a delicious and delightful wallow in deep wordplay with rhyme, alliteration, and shifting vowels that make this one a bit of a tongue twister, aided and abetted by the celebrated illustrator James Marshall, whose stuffy, fin de siecle-dressed pig family revert to their natures and dive way down derry into the so oofy poofy mud. A sheer joy to read aloud and a great giggle getter, this one is a gift to kids and grownups alike.