Review by Booklist Review
Those hellish, smelly wild boars, Horace, Boris, Morris, and Doris, return, and they are starving. Starving, I tell you! The only thing that can satisfy is a Massive Pudding. Messy, sticky, gooey, and chewy, it contains everything from bananas to squid. The boars bake, then devour. Alas, an hour later, they're hungry once more. As in the previous book, Meet Wild Boars (2003), Rosoff's tongue-in-cheek text and the full-throttle hilarity of Blackall's illustrations are a perfect match. When the story has them stirring their creation, the art shows Doris whisking the batter with her tail, while the three boys wail and sob with hunger. A fine, funny read-aloud.--Cooper, Ilene Copyright 2008 Booklist
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Starred Review. The bossy/ and selfish/ and stinky/ and hungry foursome of Meet Wild Boars concoct dessert in this droll sequel. To the delight of readers who may occasionally run afoul of etiquette enforcers, the omnivorous boars have lamentable manners, as their stained, scruffy hides and gleaming eyes suggest. Moreover, they devour everything in the linoleum-lined kitchen they inhabit. When Doris discovers a recipe for the messiest, stickiest, gooiest, chewiest, most delicious pudding in the whole wide world, the boars mix the ingredients (chocolate-covered chocolates, donuts, plus bananas and a squid) in a huge yellow bowl, using a rather hooves-on approach. Now, do you think Boris and Morris and Horace and Doris sat with their hands folded and their napkins on their laps? Rosoff disingenuously asks when the repast is ready. Blackall depicts the piggish sprees in cheerfully klutzy ink-and-watercolor. In keeping with the boars' egregious flouting of rules, the recipe at the end, for just one Massive Cookie, says nothing about sharing. Ages 2-7. (Sept.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved All rights reserved.
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-K-The four bossy, selfish, stinky boars are back, cooking up a Massive Pudding to satisfy their enormous hunger. Doris finds a recipe in the book she is eating and the others gleefully help her make it. When they stir it up and it doesn't look big enough to satisfy, they improvise, throwing in some of their favorite things (like a squid). When the pudding is baked, "do you think Boris and Morris and Horace and Doris sat with their hands folded and their napkins in their laps?" Not a chance! After finishing it off in 10 seconds flat, the boars are hungry again, but Doris saves the day-she finds a Massive Cookie recipe. These wonderful hijinks with the endearing boars are pictured in wildly imaginative illustrations, including endpapers that look like boar hair. Libraries should not miss out on this fun title, which is sure to be a popular choice for a food or manners-themed storytime.-Judith Constantinides, formerly at East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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