The Marzipan Pig

by Russell Hoban

Quentin Blake (Illustrator)

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From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind Captain Najork and The Twenty Elephant Restaurant, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan.

Fallen behind the sofa, nobody hears the lost marzipan pig’s cries for help. And, after many months, a mouse discovers him and eats him up, having never known such sweetness. But a longing to be loved passes from the marzipan pig to the mouse … and so begins a curious chain of events featuring a dancing owl, a glowing taxi meter, a buzzing bee and a pinky-orange hibiscus flower – all triggered by the little lost marzipan pig. Each encounter more wonderful and more romantic than the last, just how far will the marzipan’s sweetness travel?

  • ISBN10 1406362255
  • ISBN13 9781406362251
  • Publish Date 5 April 2018 (first published 30 October 1986)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 14 February 2024
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Walker Books Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 48
  • Language English