What more could a preschool teacher/babysitter/parent want to share with kids?*Spoiler for the ending* I especially liked that Little Oink if finally able to clean as he likes when he plays house. In this picturebook, making a mess is not fun and cleaning is. While all the other animals spend a portion of their day cleaning, Oink wishes to join them.Rosenthal has an amazing ability to play with expectation and perspective. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.9780811866552Appetizer: Little Oink is a happy little pig, but there's one part of his day that he doesn't like. Still, this was an enjoyable picture-book, well worth the time of anyone who reads to (and with) toddlers. Whether this is owing to some difference in quality between the two, or merely to the fact that the novelty of concept has worn off, I couldn't really say.

But while I think Little Oink will probably be a crowd-pleaser, particularly with young children who don't like to clean their rooms, somehow I didn't think it quite the equal of Little Pea. Little details, like Mama Pig's vintage glasses, added to the sense of visual whimsy. In Little Oink, the eponymous hero likes nothing so much as to be clean, but his parents insist that all good pigs must make a mess, and will not permit him to go out and play, until his room is looking like a pigsty.I enjoyed this clever play on the classic parent-child conflict concerning the necessity of cleaning one's room, and thought Corace's ink and watercolor illustrations were charming. Following upon their immensely successful Little Pea and Little Hoot, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Jen Corace once again deliver a tale of a youngster whose experience is the inversion of some common childhood problem, whether it be the disinclination to eat vegetables, or a reluctance to go to bed.

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