The Pig Who Loved Gluffles is an interesting book by Tony Philips. For me, this book was hard for me to understand and get into. I think the theme of the book was greed, but I’m not sure (that’s how confusing the book was for me). Kids may like this book, but this book isn’t my cup of tea. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read this book. My review is also on Goodreads.

If I could give this book zero stars, I would.
The messages conveyed in the book are completely inappropriate for the targeted audience and here are some illustrations that are even more appropriate (though little ones may not catch them). It was a struggle for me to read this book for the audacious themes and there would be no way I would ever read this to a child.

I received a copy of this book through Netgalley. This is my honest review.

This book was a double feature, so I got two stories for the price of one (although in my case that was free as it was an advanced review copy). The first story was about a pig who loves gluffles, which based on the illustrations are essentially mushrooms it looks like. This story had some strong Lorax vibes in that the pig was eating the gluffles to extinction, like the truffala trees. He needed to change his ways to prevent that from happening.

The second story was about birds trying to keep a pig from eating all their eggs. The birds were super incompetent, even with a bunny trying to help them by giving them tips, they just couldn't figure out how to do it until one of their young ones comes along.

The illustrations in these two stories were awkward. I had a hard time telling the difference between the pig and the bunny in the first story (and didn't actually realize it was a bunny until the second story where the difference between bunny and bird was a bit more pronounced). I wasn't really a fan of the drawings.

I also don't think I'd really want to read this book to my children more than once if they were still at that age. Overall I give this book 2.7 out of 5 stars.

The Pig Who Loved Gluffles looked cute, but it was a sort of strange knockoff of The Lorax. It did have a good message although what the message was is a little fuzzy. The story wasn't very interesting--my second grade students would probably be bored or disengaged. It just doesn't have anything in particular that grabs the reader's attention. I didn't love the art style either.

Eeeeek...the two stars was me being generous because I really hate to review books so negatively.

These were bad..from the awkward illustrations (mostly the first Gluffle story- the pig and rabbit were somewhat scary looking in my opinion) to the attempt at rhyming that seemed like random words thrown together and definitely above the learning level this book is marketed towards.

Awkward is probably the best term for these stories. I think that the general messages were important but the conveyance of them lacked anything that would be suitable for a children's story.

I HIGHLY disliked the noose around the neck of the skunk and squid and I just felt generally uncomfortable reading both of these.

I feel bad, I really did not enjoy this at all. The overall rhythm of the story just didn’t work, and I was not a fan of the illustrations at all. The second story in this book was better, but that really didn’t bring my opinion up very much at all.

I didn't like this book. The pig is kind of ugly, the illustrations weren't for my taste and the stories didn't have a purpose, a lesson. This is a book aimed for children. It doesn't teach anything. Not my cup of tea, as it seems.

Two colourful, rhymed narratives in one, here. First, the pig who loves gluffles follows his rabbit (or is it a hare?!) source to the only place gluffles still grow in the wild – only to be stunned into having second thoughts when he realises this is the last gluffle in the world. Surely even he won't eat the last one ever? Or will he? Next another story piece that also confuses two species, as a turtle that's also a tortoise plagues the narrators by eating all the eggs. Longer, it has the issue of a shyster selling stupid turtle deterrents to remedy the situation, but no wonder they won't work if the narrator can't pin down the critter to one species. That aside these are inoffensive, jolly bits of narrative doggerel, and while no classics are worth a look. A slightly generous four stars.

so there's actually 2 fabel stories. the first one was about a pig who loved gluffles, just like the book title, and the other one... I don't even know what was that about

the word choices were too hard to be on children book, I think. so yeah.

I liked the idea of the book but it just wasn’t one for me

I wasn’t a fan of the two stories that made up the book and the illustrations were pretty awful (apologies to the illustrator), they just didn’t work for me at all

It is 2 stars from me for this one, not one that I will be recommending

The Pig Who Loved Gluffles And One More Story by Tony Philips is a collection of two short stories for children.
The illustrations are bright, colourful and fun. There’s little text on every page. The mix of rhyming and non-rhyming verse makes in interesting.

Vocabulary is simple and easy to follow, though the message is not delivered in an age appropriate manner. Children in the age-group of 4-8 years, the targeted audience, might get confused with the take-aways.

For example, "The day we saved the eggs" is a story of birds who are trying to protect their eggs from a turtle. A hungry turtle keeps eating all their eggs, so the birds come up with strange solutions to keep the turtle at bay. The solutions include offering him diamonds, omelets and ten dancing girls. What is the message being conveyed here?

If this wasn’t enough, there are instances of physical violence. There's a disturbing graphic where a noose is tied around a skunk’s neck to get skunk juice out of him. In other scenes, birds physically pin down the tortoise, fence the turtle, and hang a rabbit upside down by his ears and nose.

And I really don’t know what to make of the last line–"if you don’t like the ending, you can go blow your nose."

The story of the pig is comparatively better in conveying the message of not being greedy and learning to conserve for the future.

Unfortunately, I would not be recommending The Pig Who Loved Gluffles And One More Story to anyone.

I received a free copy of this book from BooksGoSocial through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

My kids really liked the illustrations. They are too young to understand the content, but I thought it was pretty dark. I also did love turtle and tortoise being used interchangeably as they are different.

The Pig Who Loved Gluffles. This is a cute funny, silly story about a pig who ate gluffles. The illustrations are beautiful. A story for children 5 and older.

This was an interesting book, but I'm not too sure if it's for the right reasons. The illustrations in the book weren't really to my liking, but I can see the message that the author was trying to convey. It was one about conservation and consideration. The greedy pig kept wanting to eat the truffles (sounding like truffles), but there was only one left, and he had to think about tomorrow - and if there would be any left tomorrow if he ate the last one living today. I like the overall idea, but the books imagery just wasn't for me. The language was a little tricky in my opinion too, for children.