I read everything-novels, non-fiction, newspapers. I must admit, also, that I read a tremendous amount. You get the idea-things come to me in weird ways. But someday I might, because, for years, I have been thinking about that raccoon waddling out our yard and down the street with that gingerbread house. Now, I have never written a story about a raccoon celebrating Christmas. Many Christmases ago, I saw a raccoon in our trash shed dragging away a gingerbread house I had made for my kids. So I think I am just a good observer, and perhaps I see things and wonder about them in odd ways and this means sometimes making up stories about them. I did read someplace that some famous writer (I forget who) said that a writer is not necessarily the smartest person in the room but the most observant. It’s as mysterious to me as it is to all of you. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title.This is the question I think that I am most often asked by people, and I mean all people-kids, the guy who cuts my lawn, the TV repairman, my doctor. Her childrens books include several Dear America books, The Royal Diaries books, Sugaring Time, The Night Journey, Wolves of the Beyond, and the Guardians of GaHoole series. While not the best guidebook on how to make friends (make them in a lab? eat your friend's enemies?), Porkenstein is sure to amuse youngsters who prefer a not-too-scary Halloween tale. Kathryn Lasky (born June 24, 1944) 1 is an American childrens writer who also writes for adults under the names Kathryn Lasky Knight and E. First-time picture-book illustrator David Jarvis succeeds in making veteran author Kathryn Lasky's silly story seem both mad-scientisty and friendly at the same time, infusing many comical details and unusual perspectives to keep things interesting. Porkenstein eats him, and everyone lives happily ever after. Smart Pig's house and knocks on the door. Posing as a trick-or-treater on Halloween night, he goes to Dr. As news of the giant monster-pig, Porkenstein, hits the media, the Big Bad Wolf gets very excited. But what's this? 'There, on the table, was the biggest pig he had ever seen.' Worse yet, it is very hungry-quite piggish, actually. The third time's the charm, and the next time he goes into his lab, he hears actual grunting, a good sign.

His first concoction is a pig fish his second, a pig bat. Glumly contemplating another Halloween alone, he decides to invent a fabulous, utterly wolfproof pig to keep him company.

heartbroken since his two brothers were eaten by the Big Bad Wolf a year ago. Face it, some kids are so lonely that if they had the power to concoct a buddy in a lab they'd do it in a heartbeat.

Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky