Hogwash by: Arthur Geisert

This book is for the kiddies that love to build and experiment and make contraptions with building toys such as "Marble Works"....that's what this book reminded me of when I read it. This book is also a wordless story, but leaves so much to the readers imagination with the wonderful illustrations and intricate details of a machine. "Hogwash" is about little piglets that have fun playing, rolling, and getting dirty in the mud, but then are sent through this crazy machine that cleans them through different steps.

I think kids could definitely get into this book, and use their imagination to explain the different steps that the piglets go through to get clean. The illustrations are fantastic. It almost looks like some of the artwork was done with a strategy called "pointillism". There are also very small details that some kids would definitely be interested in pointing out. For example, on the contraption there is a thermometer so that the water does not get too hot for the pigs. There are also tubes that drain the water into a river, so that the tubs do not overflow with the piglets in them. There's all kind of little details that kids would be able to work through by looking and the pictures and figuring out how the machine works.

Kids can relate to having fun and getting dirty, they can relate to the curiosities of figuring out how different machines and contraptions work, and they can relate to having mommy's making them take a bath and getting clean! I think this book would facilitate a lot of discussion with kids as they might have questions or even answers to what is going on in the pictures. I enjoyed this book, and think it is a fun story for the younger kids.