Hogwash

by Arthur Geisert and Trish Doller

Book Overview

It's bath time! All the little piggies have had lots of fun playing, and now they're dirty, muddy, and covered in paint. But their mamas aren't worried--they have just the machine to turn this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618773320
• ISBN13: 9780618773329
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

great elaborate pictures

My four year old boy loves following along. He loves all of Arthur Geisert's books. This one is one of his favorites. He loves the details.

Fascinating for mechanically minded children

Over the last three months, my three year old son has spent hours gazing at the detailed mechanisms depicted in this book. Like Richard Scary's drawings of mills and electrical plants, Hogwash has lots of moving parts to follow but for completely made up equipment - a pig bather.

a feast for Rube Goldberg machine lovers

Arthur Geisert's books aren't for everyone. They are funny in a sly, subtle way, and his amazing prints are a little darker than most children's books. But if you have a kid who loves to pour over books, then the rich amazing detail will be right up their alley. Hogwash is particularly lovely as its colors are a little brighter and it shows amazing engineering principles in action. We have also loved Pigaroons, Oops, The Giant Ball of String, and Lights Out.

Rutgers University Project on Economics and Children

Several resourceful mama pigs have built a marvelous cleaning contraption that washes and dries their dirty piglets until they wind up spotless and pristine. The enormous machine consists of an elaborate arrangement of pumps, hydrolics, heating elements, levers, pulleys, turbines, clotheslines, magnets, and wheels, all combined with a giant wash tub and shower head. The mamas know to maximize the merriment, so they have fabricated the device to include a wave pool and a cable ride. Tucked away in these intricate pages of pigs and machines are some powerful economics lessons about capital resources and innovation. The clever mamas are innovators in every way, and the washing contraption they designed not only saves them time, but it also entertains their little ones. This splendid book adds a whole new dimension to the phrase "a bunch of hogwash," and readers may have difficulty ever again equating hogwash with baloney.