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Other activities included various book-related projects and an
all-school read-in, complete with Dumpy's favorite snack! Check out the links at the left for complete web coverage. According to Amazon.com, " Despite all sorts of well-intentioned advice to discourage him ('Pigs don't dance,' said his mother. 'They bellow, they swallow, they learn how to wallow'), Dumpy can't ignore the tantalizing beat he hears in his head: 'He twirled in the sty, raised his snout to the sky, spread his hooves far and wide, and pretended to fly.' Not surprisingly, an at-first-reluctant barnyard audience begins to catch on, first the sheep--'We want to dance too,' cried the sheep. 'It looks like fun. Why should he be the only one?'--then even, eventually, Poppa Pig himself." (Artwork from Dumpy La Rue, by Elizabeth Winthrop, illustrated by Betsy Lewin, Henry Holt and Company) |
Mills Lawn celebrated 