Quentin Corn

This review is written to parents and teachers, so there are spoilers present. This book has been on my shelf for probably 5 years from where I nabbed it at a library sale. I likely felt compelled to add it to my shopping bag because of my love for Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White and it reminded me som......more

After a farm raised pig discovers he's to become the main course at a BBQ, he steals some clothes and dresses up like a boy, and runs away to the nearest town. He finds a job as a handyman's helper and is befriended by a young girl, and several of the town dwellers. His charade lasts for only a week......more

Cute, coming into one's self, story that I read as a child with my family and enjoyed reading it with my children.......more

Mary Stolz is hardly a writer with whom everyone is familiar now, but she was quite prolific from 1950 right up to the turn of the century. Although she authored over fifty children’s and young adult stories, I can only claim familiarity with one of her works: Quentin Corn. A late discovery for me—m......more

In an attempt to avoid the inevitable fate of all pigs on a farm, this unnamed pig flees the pigpen, picking up a name, clothes, human language, and surprisingly cultured etiquette as he goes along. Of course, the charade could never last, but even so the story has a happy ending. Good clean fun in t......more