Synopses & Reviews
Dumpy was a pig who knew what he wanted to do.
"He's a porker with passion,
a dancing fool,
a pig with rhythm
this breaks every rule,"
said the normally reticent mule.
Everyone told Dumpy La Rue that pigs don't dance. But Dumpy knew better. He closed his eyes and twirled to the tune inside his head. The whole barnyard gathered around, and soon hooves were stomping, wings were flapping, and feet were stamping out a beat.
Elizabeth Winthrop's romping, rhyming story and Betsy Lewin's exuberant illustrations will have readers tapping their toes, jumping for joy, and dancing a jig with this passionate pig.
Review
"Though the verse intermittently falters in its rhythm and rhyme, the kid-tickling energy and silliness remain constant. And amidst the merriment, readers just may pick up on the importance of bucking stereotypes and listening to one's own drummer or whatever it is that is playing 'inside.'" Publishers Weekly
Review
"Through Dumpy's warmth and enthusiasm, children will meet a youngster who marches to the beat of his own drummer, and who encourages others to do so as well." School Library Journal
Review
"There's...plenty of bounce here...in the lively text and the exuberant line-and-watercolor pictures, some of which fairly leap off the pages just like the dancing critters they show." Booklist
Synopsis
Everyone tells Dumpy La Rue that pigs don't dance, but Dumpy knows better. Winthrop's romping, rhyming story and Lewin's exuberant illustrations will have readers dancing a jig with this passionate pig. Full color.
Synopsis
Everyone told Dumpy La Rue that pigs don't dance. But Dumpy knew better. He closed his eyes and twirled to the tune inside his head. The whole barnyard gathered around, and soon hooves were stomping, wings were flapping, and feet were stamping out a beat.
Elizabeth Winthrop's romping, rhyming story and Betsy Lewin's exuberant illustrations will have readers tapping their toes, jumping for joy, and dancing a jig with this passionate pig.
Synopsis
Everyone told Dumpy La Rue that pigs don't dance. But Dumpy knew better. He closed his eyes and twirled to the tune inside his head. The whole barnyard gathered around, and soon hooves were stomping, wings were flapping, and feet were stamping out a beat.
Elizabeth Winthrop's romping, rhyming story and Betsy Lewin's exuberant illustrations will have readers tapping their toes, jumping for joy, and dancing a jig with this passionate pig.
Synopsis
"He's a porker with passion,a dancing fool, a pig with rhythm-
this breaks every rule,"
said the normally reticent mule.
Now in paperback, Dumpy La Rue, a story of a pig who knew what he wanted to do.
Elizabeth Winthrop's romping, rhyming story and Betsy Lewin's exuberant illustrations will have readers tapping their toes, jumping for joy, and dancing a jig with this passionate pig as they follow him and the barnyard animals from farm to fame. Dumpy La Rue is a 2001 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year.
About the Author
Elizabeth Winthrop has written more than forty books, from picture books to young adult novels. Her most recent book,
Promises, is also illustrated by Betsy Lewin. Ms. Winthrop lives in New York City.
Betsy Lewin has illustrated more than fifty books for children, many of which she also wrote. Most recently, she illustrated the best-selling Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin. Ms. Lewin lives with her husband, artist Ted Lewin, in Brooklyn, New York.