Piggybook

Illus. in full color. 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.