Pig-Boy : a trickster tale from Hawaiʻi / Gerald McDermott.
Material type:
TextPublication details: New York : Harcourt Children's Books, 2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780152165901
- 0152165908
- Kamapuaʻa (Hawaiian deity) -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
- Pele (Hawaiian deity) -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
- Tricksters -- Hawaii -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
- Swine -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
- Pigs -- Folkore
- Legends -- Hawaii -- Juvenile literature
- Hawaii -- Folklore -- Juvenile literature
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 398.2099 M134 | Available | 33111008085298 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Pig-Boy is hairy. Pig-Boy is dirty. Pig-Boy is hungry! And when trouble comes, he knows just what to do. (Of course, escaping trouble comes easily to a trickster, who can shape-shift his way out of sticky situations just in time!) With the tropical colors and cadences of the islands, master artist and storyteller Gerald McDermott brings irrepressible humor and energy to a Hawaiian trickster tale that's been beloved for generations.
Includes an author's note.
"The illustrations ... were done in gouache, colored pencil, and pastel on 400 lb. Arches watercolor paper."--Title page verso.
The mischievous, shape-shifting Pig-Boy gets in trouble with both the King and Pele, the goddess of fire, but always manages to slip away as his grandmother has told him to do.