Chris Kurtz
Author of The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage
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Flora wants to do more, see more, and become more than simply a pig. She enjoys talks with dogs, who inform her of their jobs, enjoys chats with cats who tell her nine lives are just a state of mind. Flora, however, can't seem to get out, until one day people come for her. . .
There was some darker areas of this book, animals killed, the mention of how ice and cold effects the body(freezing to death, drowning in it, etc), and some other darker angles, but it was easy to gloss over if you don't think about how the protagonist is basically walking bacon to everyone around her.
This was a tale that made me think of Gordy or Babe. We have a pig who is seen as food or dismissed by humans grow to become more than just a pig and do more than pig things. If you like either of the before mentioned works, you'll enjoy South Pole Pig.
I'd have included Charlotte's Web as it's obviously the most pig book people think about, but Wilbur was a whiny pig at the end of the day. For all Charlotte's Web brought us, it never brought me enjoying a pig's story, and this too, is to be said for Babe in many ways. I could not handle either pig being bullying, pushy, demanding, or expecting things given to them. Taking a page from someone else's review here, I will admit Flora comes out on top to any other pig in written material I've seen as she's genuinely a good character. She doesn't push and shove, she doesn't run in blind. She questions, she asks, she learns. She has a dream but also has friends.
Flora has heart, and doesn't give up, like a true pig.… (more)