 Otis
By Janie Bynum
Review
by: Lori
Plach
Its not
easy liking something just because its expected. Otis suffers from a severe
case of loneliness. He's not like all the other pigs, and that makes it
difficult to make friends. Pigs are known to enjoy being sloppy and love
swimming in mud. Otis likes being clean. He won't play rugby with his
brothers in the swamp and instead sits on the grass keeping score. He won't
join in this sisters' game of tag but instead counts flowers. Despite his
parents telling him that someday he will like mud, it just doesn't appeal to
him as being any fun.
One day as he returns home from gardening, he hears
someone sobbing. He finds a little frog who is all upset about losing his
ball in the middle of a mud puddle. Since he's not like all the other
mud-loving frogs, he assumes that Otis will help him since he's a pig. Otis
does help the little frog but not in the way the frog imagined. They come up
with a creative solution to their dilemma and neither one gets muddy. A new
friendship is formed and the story ends happily.
Children will be able to relate to this story,
because of the playing
ball, picking flowers and playing tag. There is a little red bird on
virtually every page which could be pointed by children while listening. The
words are simple enough that beginning readers would enjoy this picture book
as well.
This book was a Junior Library Guild Selection. It
shows that you don't have to be just like everyone else, true friends will
appreciate the
differences.
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