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From: The Independent - London | Date: April 30, 2000 | Copyright information

Little Pig Figwort

By Henrietta Branford, illus Claudio Munoz COLLINS pounds 10.99

This little piggy just couldn't get to sleep, so he "pulled on his deep sea diving suit and squeezed into his submarine". But it's night- time for the mermaids and they wouldn't play. Subsequent trips on his skidoo to the North Pole, and up in his moon-rocket finally tire out this hyperactive piglet. The pictures of him tossing, turning, wriggling and winking in an attempt to drop off are pure de...