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Clarks Eye on Books

By Clark Isaacs

Living with PigsAuthor: Chuck Wooster; Photographs by Geoff HansenISBN: 978-1-592228-877-9 Pages: 208, $24.95, Publication Date: July 1, 2008The Lyons Press

This definitely is not a book about children and what their mothers told them about their rooms looking like a pig sty. This is a book about animal husbandry and the raising of your own porkers.

Living with Pigs is wonderfully illustrated with photographic images by Geoff Hansenshowing the many different breeds of pigs and their surroundings. We all relate toBabe and the exploits of this cute piglet in the barnyard. Chuck Wooster tells talesabout his pigs and getting them used to his barnyard for feeding. He snorts hello tothem and they snort and grunt return affection.

This book shows that growing up to a shoat and then to a hog is an extremely fast project.In the span of 5 months a 20 to 30 pound shoat becomes a 250 pound hog! With tonguein cheek humor, Chuck Wooster, tells in a remarkably subtle manner the foils andaccomplishments he had in the raising of his pigs. One day, three of his pigs werewalking across the field to the reception tent for his sisters wedding. These devils wereso smart they picked the lock of their enclosure and escaped to join the party.

How to construct enclosures, fences, and where to place a pig sty are only a few explicitinstructions given. Hansen goes into extreme detail on the selection process of gettingthat first shoat. He writes about the gregarious nature of pigs and their need to socialize

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Little, Brown, $25.99. ISBN 9780316143479.3 Life with My Sister Madonna. Christopher Ciccone;Simon Spotlight Entertainment, $26. ISBN 9781416587620.4 The Winner's Manual. Jim Tressel with Chris Fabry;Tyndale House, $24.99. ISBN 9781414325699.

5 Deceptively Delicious. Jessica Seinfeld;Collins, $24.95. ISBN 9780061251344.

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