Pig Kahuna

I liked the language used in this book because it portrays how the characters really feel towards the items they find on the beach. The illustrations show the development of the story well and stay consistent all throughout. The characters in the book are interesting and their relationship is relatable.

The two main characters find treasures on the beach, some that are cool and some that are not so cool. The language they use to describe each item makes it clear how they feel about it to the point where they do not need a picture to support it. For example, they find seaweed and state that “[the seaweed] was a lurking, murky, ickiness”. The illustrations back up each page nicely. Their whole adventure takes place on the beach so the show more setting is drawn consistently and the character’s emotions as the story develops accurately match the text. There are parts where they are excited about what they find or frantic when they lose an item and without looking at the text, the illustrations speak for themselves and tell the story. The character’s relationship is interesting because just by looking at what they say throughout the book it can be inferred that one of them is the older sibling and the other is younger. There is a part in the story where the younger sibling lets a treasure go in the water just because he thinks it “seemed to have lost it’s shine” and after he does that the older sibling screams “DAVE!” and “furiously swam out to save it”. It goes to show the level of maturity between the characters just in those few lines.

The main message of the story is that you really won’t know how good you are at something until you try it. Many times there is hidden talent in all of us. It takes that certain experience to figure it all out. show less

Fergus and his little brother, Dink (wearing a diaper) are collecting objects on the beach when they run across a surfboard. Because the ocean had perceived yuckiness, however, they did not surf on it, but made it into a friend they named Dave. Dink decided Dave wanted to return to the ocean so he set Dave free. Fergus rushed into the water to save Dave and, before he knew it, Fergus was surfing.

“Dink looked long and hard at Dave.

He seemed to have lost his shine.

‘You miss the ocean, huh, big fella?

You should be wild! And free !’”

Furgus and Dink tell a great story of getting over your fears and finding new things to love once you've conquered those fears. Deep water is an understandable fear for most of us. This is a great book illustrating that sometimes our fears aren't as scary as we make them out to be. Also, getting over a fear can be easier with someone near.

Great illustrations, but slightly anti-climactic ending. The two friends discover treasure including a surf board... that they name Dave. Humor that children will relate to. I was engaged and excited right up to the end, then for me somehow it didn't quite hold up.

A very enjoyable read, my kids check this book out quite a bit! This could be used in the library to discuss fears both real and imagined. The kids could then write a short paragraph about their fears and how they might deal with them.

"Pig Kahuna" shows courageous pigs on a beach adventure. The pigs showed up at the beach to claim treasures found only on land. Before they knew it, they were fearless of the ocean and began to surf with a surfboard treasure they had found. This story points out that you never know, unless you try! Had the surf board not gone into the water, the pigs would have never tried to get over their fear and surf!

Fergus and Dink are exploring the beach and make quite a collection. they even find a surf board and name him dave. dink ends up throwing dave back into the ocean since he must be feeling lonely. they end up learning how to surf with dave
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