Help, Pink Pig

Pink Pig #2

by C.S. Adler

If Ever Amanda Needed Pink Pig, It's Now!

Pink Pig was lying on her side in a mess of pins and paper clips where Mother had left her. Amanda had sent the shiny rose quartz miniature to Mother at Christmas so she wouldn't be lonely. But now, living in their new Los Angeles apartment, it is Amanda who needs the magic of Pink Pig. And so does her new friend Robbie. Amanda had never shared Pink Pig's Little World with anyone before, but she knows Robbie can be trusted.
But all is not well in the Little World. As Amanda and Robbie enter Pink Pig's miniature land they discover that all the little creatures are living in terror. The Dark Knight and other villains threaten their very lives and Pink Pig is in great danger. And to make matters worse, they are facing a new invasion from the outside world!

Genres: Fantasy

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1990

About the author

C.S. (Carole) Adler moved to Tucson, Arizona, after spending most of her life in upstate New York. She was an English teacher at Niskayuna Middle School for nearly a decade. She is a passionate tennis player, grandmother, and nature lover, and has been a full-time writer since the publication of her first book,The Magic of the Glits, in 1979. That book won both the William Allen White Award and the Golden Kite Award.

Her bookThe Shell Lady’s Daughter was chosen by the A.L.A. as a best young adult book of l983. With Westie and the Tin Man won the Children’s Book Award of the Child Study Committee in l986, and that committee has commended many of Adler’s books. Split Sisters in l987 and Ghost Brother in 1991 were I.R.A. Children’s Choices selections. One Sister Too Many was on the 1991 Young Adults’ Choices list. Always and Forever Friends and Eddie’s Blue Winged Dragon were on a 1991 I.R.A. 99 Favorite Paperbacks list.

Many of her books have been on state lists and have also been published in Japan, Germany, England, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, and France.

Reviews

[karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

fulfilling my vow to read all the sequels i never knew existed to books i loved when i was little.

review to come!

[Kayla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read the Pink Pig books when I was much younger and remember loving them. They really made an impression on me, imaginative as I was. I feel like I should definitely read them again (have to squeeze them in somewhere on my to-read list).

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this sequel to a childhood favorite at the thrift store. It was pretty lame, but I loved it anyway.

[Don Heiman · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Help Pink Pig “ by C.S. Adler was released in 1990 by Avon Books, a division of The Hearst Corporation.  Amanda is an eleven-year-old who lives with her mother in Los Angles in an apartment adjacent to a very busy highway.   She has an older brother Dale who nicknamed her “Little Mouse.”   Dale recently joined the U.S. military. Amanda is lonely and spends much of her time speaking to her quartz figurine she calls the “Pink Pig”.   Her small pig is very magical, and lives is in a collection of small figurines in a make-believe world of 19 alive figurines including a ballerina, frogs, corn husk dolls, a spangled giraffe, and a peasant man and woman along with dragons and knights.  In her magical world there is a dark knight who is a villain entraps her in a world laced with real-life conflicts, loneliness, constant changing situations, and scary events that plague her imagination.  In her world she meets 10-year-old Robbie Morrison who is a boy who has fears like Amanda’s fears, and they both tightly bond with each other.  Together they can develop a deep sense of courage that help them cope with their changing world.  They both can use their imagination and relationship with a very helpful quartz pink pig figurine to conquer the Dark Knight, and the mysticism of the changing world Robbie and Armand’s are experiencing.   They develop an inner strength and the power to overcome the difficulties they experience in their constantly changing world.  This is a world full of many authorities that control others using parental dictates, bullies’ behaviors, teachers, and life enforcers such as police, religious leaders, and adults.  They can control activities of others who occupy their world.  The book portrays the power and growth of Amanda’s and Robbie’s inner strength to discern and cope.  The book portrays family dynamics and the dialogues with the Pink Pig and her other figurines who are full of insights about living in a world that surrounds them as they mature, conquer fears, and adjust to living through the different stages of their lives.  (P)

[Natalia · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a story about kids from dysfunctional families trying to cope the best they could. It was okay but nothing remarkable. I did not finish it.