Swine Lake

by James Marshall

Other authorsMaurice Sendak (Illustrator)
Hardcover, 1999

Call number

E M

Publication

HarperCollins (1999), Edition: 1st, 40 pages

Description

A hungry wolf attends a performance of Swine Lake, performed by the Boarshoi Ballet, intending to eat the performers, but he is so entranced by the story unfolding on the stage that he forgets about his meal.

User reviews

LibraryThing member mmharvey
Swine Lake is about a wolf who is down on his luck. He is walking down the street when he smells pigs and soon finds out that it's a pig theater. He attends this play and luckily none of the pigs notice he's there. He was planning on jumping on stage and eating all the pigs, but got so caught up in
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the story he never got around to it. He loved the part where a monster comes and steals the bride from her wedding and can't stop thinking about it when he goes home. The next day he attends the play again and this time before the monster comes out, he jumps on stage and pretends he is playing that part. The book ends with him being very pleased with himself because the newspapers said it was "like a real wolf".
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LibraryThing member cejerry97
Swine Lake is a story about a hungry wolf who is walking through a town, when he notices a marquis on a theater that says "Swine Lake." The wolf attends the play with the intention of eating all of the pigs, but he becomes captivated by the dancing, acting, music, and story involved in the play.
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The pig buys another ticket to the next showing, leaps onto stage, and dances himself, taking over the part of the monster who is supposed to take the pig bride away. The next day, the newspaper congratulates the wolf on his exciting performance.
Type: picture book, advanced
Genre: Fantasy
Illustrations: painted
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LibraryThing member megross
This book is about a wolf that is hungry. He does past a theatre of pigs and decides to sit in on the play by getting some free tickets. The wolf gets very into the play and goes back for a second time. The second time he goes he interrupts the play and the newspaper writes a review the next day of
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his great performance.
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LibraryThing member ekstewar
Summary: A wolf who plans on eating the pigs in a play ends up being so enthralled by the storyline that he forgets that's he even hungry and ends up becoming an actor in the play himself.
Genre: Picture Book
Personal Reflection: I like the style of illustration in this book and the storyline is
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very original.
Concept:This book tells about the magic that a story has to captivate an audience and I think that's exactly what it could do for young readers.
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LibraryThing member Whisper1
Printed in 1999, after Sendak's beloved friend James Marshall had died, grieving, Sendak worked diligently to give justice to the story line.

A wolf who loves pigs roams around in an unfamiliar part of town. Hungry and smelling pigs, he follows his nose to the Swine Lake Boarshoi Ballet
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threatre.

Aiming to eat the cast of characters, instead, the wolf becomes mesmerized by the play.

Caught up in the pagentry of emotion, during his attendance at the play, the following night, he jumps on stage and dances.

Reading rave reviews the next night, "he executed a couple of flashy dance steps!"

This was a lovely book, highly creative in the message of how art can tame the most savage beast!
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LibraryThing member jlaurendine
The main character from the Nursery Tale "Red Riding Hood", the Wolf, was the main character in this book. The Wolf sees an advertisement for "Swine Lake", a play starring pigs. He was excited to go see it and planned on eating the pigs, but got so enthralled in the play itself that he didn't eat
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one. He went back the next day and bought another ticket to see the play again, and got wrapped up in the play and danced on the stage with one of the pigs. He left the pig backstage and ran home. He made the movie review in the newspaper! Precious book.
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LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
Just didn't work for me. Maybe Marshall died before he could pull the text together - it reads more like an outline here. The pictures are fun, and really help the story make more sense... but again, in my personal opinion, they aren't enough to make this book appealing. I'm giving it 3 stars (not
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2) because I like some of the details (Pigs do fly" N.Y. Times, the Old-Fashioned Bookstore going out of business signs, the wolf's landlady...).
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Pages

40

ISBN

0062051717 / 9780062051714
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