Winnie-the-pooh & the Pigs Au Gratin Pooh Novels Book

Get set to enjoy an epic sequel to the original Winnie-the-Pooh books by A.A. Milne. This funny and exciting middle grade novel brings many new and imaginative characters into Pooh’s Forest. The most striking among them is the Queen of the Pigs Au Gratin, the ruler of a court of royal pigs—who are in fact named after their favorite dish: Potatoes Au Gratin. The Queen rules with an iron hoof and selfishness as a virtue, and plans to destroy Pooh and friends’ Forest to make way for her palace, village, golf course, and farm. Only by teaming up with a cunning 12-year-old girl can Pooh and friends hope to cast out these rude and greedy invaders and preserve their simple way of life.What 8 to 12 year olds are saying about this book:“Tigger and Eeyore were super funny.”“I’d like to be friends with Samantha.”“It’s a bigger adventure than the first books.”“I wouldn’t mind having lunch with the Queen, but there’s no way I could eat eight meals a day!”What parents are saying about this book:“Tigger and Eeyore are the comic duo of the novel: the overly confident optimist and the ever-gloomy pessimist. Their antics, especially when they butt heads, had me laughing out loud as I read it to my daughter.”“It’s a modern type of fairy tale in a way, sort of like Winnie-the-Pooh meets Animal Farm. The Queen of the Pigs Au Gratin is a greedy, rich developer who wants to destroy a forest for her own betterment. The Queen naturally quotes from Machiavelli’s The Prince and like Louis the Fourteenth, before the French Revolution, flaunts her excessive wealth through opulent feasts. Not that any of the writing is overly serious. It’s a fun read, with a lot of humor. One particular and quite elaborate fart joke had my son cackling about it for days.”