"Mr. Piggott and his sons are a male chauvinist lot who, outside of yelling for their dinner, don't exercise themselves much around the house. When Mrs. Piggott finally tires of the endless chores that sandwich her workday, she leaves the menfolk on their own, with a note saying, 'You are pigs.' With the cooking and housework untended, they soon turn genuinely porcine, a transformation Browne foreshadows with pig faces on the wallpaper, vases, fireplace, phone. As in most of Browne's art, there is more than a touch of irony and visual humor here. Fun to read aloud."--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books.
一個幾乎顛覆了傳統(tǒng)家庭倫理的玩笑，細(xì)節(jié)上變化的視覺游戲營造出令人眼花繚亂的效果。雖然討論的是一個關(guān)于性別歧視的嚴(yán)肅話題，但作者將故事講述得趣味橫生。一個非常棒、非常幽默有趣的故事。
朱家的生活看起來不錯，房、車、花園，一應(yīng)俱全；爸爸和兄弟兩個被媽媽照顧得無微不至。然而這一天晚上，任勞任怨、辛勤顧家的媽媽突然不見了。一紙留言：“你們是豬”表明了媽媽對朱家父子的不滿和失望。沒有媽媽的朱家亂套了！
看過本書，我們發(fā)現(xiàn)男主外、女主內(nèi)的觀念似乎并不只是中國的傳統(tǒng)家庭倫理，媽媽操持家中一切雜物的現(xiàn)象放之四海而皆有；因此而起的爭執(zhí)之聲久宣不止，安東尼·布朗卻以其特有的幽默方式，輕松的引導(dǎo)大家對于如何處理家庭瑣事的分工與分擔(dān)，進(jìn)行了又一次的思考。同時，故事中，兩個小男孩的轉(zhuǎn)變也再一次提醒我們，家庭生活中，媽媽帶給孩子無微不至的愛和照顧，然而對孩子，尤其是男孩子的行為起決定性影響的往往是爸爸。故事里對這一問題的闡釋，沿襲了安東尼·布朗作品中一貫的超現(xiàn)實手法，但這部著重于描寫家庭親情倫理的作品，將超現(xiàn)實的想象與現(xiàn)實的場景結(jié)合得格外巧妙入扣，畫面中處處隱藏的伏筆，輕巧地與看似不動聲色的文字基調(diào)相互映襯，當(dāng)讀者一一發(fā)現(xiàn)其中妙處的時候，早已忍俊不禁了。
In this moralistic fable, the overworked and underappreciated Mrs. Piggott leaves her swinish husband and two sons to fend for themselves, and they literally turn into pigs. Ages 4-8.
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