Hobart

This is the story of four pigs---Byron, Violet, Wilfred, and the ever-hopeful Hobart. Each is extremely talented: Byron, a poet, Violet, an acrobat, Wilfred, a tenor, and Hobart, a tap-dancer. They have high aspirations for careers in literary and performing arts until the other barnyard animals remind them of their ultimate destiny: pork chops, sausage, and bacon. The pigs escape before the dastardly deed can be done, fleeing to the hills to perfect their talents. But danger looms...
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This is the story of four pigs---Byron, Violet, Wilfred, and the ever-hopeful Hobart. Each is extremely talented: Byron, a poet, Violet, an acrobat, Wilfred, a tenor, and Hobart, a tap-dancer. They have high aspirations for careers in literary and performing arts until the other barnyard animals remind them of their ultimate destiny: pork chops, sausage, and bacon. The pigs escape before the dastardly deed can be done, fleeing to the hills to perfect their talents. But danger looms when Byron, experiencing an attack of conscience, poetically points out what they owe to kindly Farmer Mills. Can the talented pigs fulfill their artistic aspirations, repay the farmer, and escape the clutches of the evil meat truck man? Hobart's unfailing optimism in the face of despair, combined with his siblings' varied and remarkable gifts, will tell the tale in this story of humor, excitement, and true grit.If you want a book for your children that employs humor to encourage their talents and help teach them that no matter how bad things seem, one should never let go of one's dreams, this is it."Hobart" received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. But the author's favorite review came from a third grade boy in Tennessee who wrote: "Hobart made me laugh my pants off."The book is brought to vivid life with twenty-eight delightful full-color illustrations by the author.