![]() ![]() On the next spread, Pig, Cat and Duck lounge by a pond with an hauteur worthy of habitués of the Côte d'Azur. The plucky heroine possesses the overly bright eyes of a genuine workaholic and a passive-aggressive industriousness that's a perfect foil for the urbane insouciance of her antagonists ("Call me picky," complains the indolent Cat-after eating a breakfast that the hen has prepared-while simultaneously working a crossword puzzle, "but the porridge wasn't exactly up to scrrrratch, was it?"). In her most successful effort, she sharpens the edge of the usually stolidly portrayed Little Red Hen. 9) here reworks nine childhood chestnuts, four of them in verse. ![]() Gliori ( Penguin Post, Children's Forecasts, Sept. ![]()
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