More wild boars

This book was mainly about bad manners. It talks about how the boars are bossy, selfish, and stinky. The make a pudding with horrible ingredients. They are constantly hungry and never satisfied. The book was okay. It wasn't one of my favorites.

The best picture books are about food and naughty animals. They just are. And if you can add a large mollusk, it's even better.

This book has it all. Food? Massive pudding! Naughty animals? Horrible wild boars. Large mollusk? That is one big squid.

Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris, despite their clothes and apparently having a house, are undeniably wild boars. They have long skinny snouts, spindly legs, plump bodies, and wicked little eyes. Boris, Morris, Horace and Doris are nasty and stinky and rude. They are absolutely wild boars.

And they're hungry! After discovering (and partially devouring) a cookbook, they set out to bake a massive pudding, complete with chocolates, doughnuts, butter, puddles, and a squid (but no broccoli). Their creation is gorgeous, although the squid looks rather startled, and it's gone in seconds flat, because wild boars have no table manners. But don't worry, Doris still has the cookbook...

To get the full flavor of this book, heh, heh, heh, you have to read it with tons of expression. If you can wave your hands around a little bit too, that helps. Plus a little Southern accent on the "wiiiiiild boars!" and lots of yelling and excitement over the ingredients.

Verdict: Rosoff and Blackall have another Wild Boars title, Meet Wild Boars, but Wild Boars Cook is the one you really need, plus an extra copy for your storytime collection, to be pulled out in emergencies.

ISBN: 9780805072536; Published September 2008; Reviewed from my personal collection; Purchased for the library; Purchased for my personal collection

Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars, Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry, but luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.

Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are four wild boars. I am sorry to say that these four animals are not well-behaved boars. Dear me no! These boars are “bossy,” “selfish,” “stinky,” and “HUNGRY.” These four stinky swine are so hungry that they eat cakes, hot dogs, pizza, pickles, and so much more - and they are still hungry.
While she is eating a cookbook, Doris spies a recipe for a pudding. It surely will be the most delicious, messy, sticky, gooey, and chewy pudding every created. Of course, being the Wild Boars, Morris, Boris, Horace and Doris are not satisfied with making the pudding according to the recipe. Instead they add some very nasty ingredients to make it very large and to their dubious taste.
In this funny and thoroughly entertaining picture book, we meet a quartet of porcine characters who are utterly disgusting – and loveable. They behave badly, are gluttonous, and they have a terrible taste in food, but we cannot help finding them endearing.