The Christmas Pig: A Fable
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451643381 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. The king decides to take a chance on a peculiar, mute boy whose artistic genius and clairvoyance are rumored throughout the kingdom. Finally, they find Benjamin - and he is, indeed, peculiar. Nobody knows if the child is up to the task, but the king's Christmas tradition - and Benjamin himself - might just be saved by a Christmas miracle that comes in the form of a very special pig - who is rather peculiar herself.. This year, though, the date is mere weeks away, and he still has not yet found his painter. It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell. He sends three valiant, if begrudging, knights to seek out the boy in the remote countryside. King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind
That's my kind of KINKY! If you haven't read a Kinky Friedman book, you might as well tear up your library card and keep out of the bookmobile. This man is funny from the soles of his feet to the kinky bush atop his intelligent head.. I expected more Having lived in Texas when Kinky ran for Governor, I was expecting biting, raucous humor. But, sad to say, I was disappointed Seemed like more of an effort to make a little money off his "fame" than a serious attempt at humor I read through the whole thing - but it was a struggle to keep from just tossing it in the throw away pile What a waste of time. Classic Mary Jackson Read this book; it is the essence of Christmas. Bejamin, a ten year old artist, struggles to both paint a traditional Nativity and to explain to his friend Valerie, a pig, why she alone of all the animals in the family barn cannot be shown with the Baby Jesus. Benjamin learns about friendship and love, and we all learn that Love truly comes at Christmas. I smiled, I laughed, and I cried. This is a classic. Thank you, Mr. Friedman.
Benjamin undertakes the king's commission and works on the painting in a barn, where he befriends Valerie, a talking pig who brings Benjamin out of his autistic shell. The ending is the saddest thing since Old Yeller.(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Prolific novelist and Texas gubernatorial candidate Friedman sets his winning tearjerker Christmas story in a faraway land, where a "good king" decides he needs an artist to create a nativity scene to reawaken the Christmas spirit among his dejected subjects. His adviser suggests Benjamin for the job, a 10-year-old who exhibits symptoms of autism (he doesn't speak and feels no emotion, but is a
Friedman may either be celebrating becoming the next governor of Texas or he may have retired in a petulant snit. Kinky Friedman lives in a little green trailer somewhere in the hills of Texas. By the time you are reading this, Mr. . He has five dogs, one armadillo, and one Smith-Corona typewriter