# The Marzipan Pig

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- Book: [The Marzipan Pig](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/the-marzipan-pig) ([The Marzipan Pig.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban/the-marzipan-pig.md))
- Authors: [Russell Hoban](https://www.bookquiver.com/russell-hoban), [Quentin Blake](https://www.bookquiver.com/quentin-blake)
- Publisher: Walker Books
- ISBN: 978-14-0636-225-1
- Pages: 48
- Published: 2018-04-05
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind Captain Najork and The Twenty Elephant Restaurant, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan. Fallen behind the sofa, nobody hears the lost marzipan pig’s cries for help. And, after many months, a mouse discovers him and eats him up, having never known such sweetness. But a longing to be loved passes from the marzipan pig to the mouse … and so begins a curious chain of events featuring a dancing owl, a glowing taxi meter, a buzzing bee and a pinky-orange hibiscus flower – all triggered by the little lost marzipan pig. Each encounter more wonderful and more romantic than the last, just how far will the marzipan’s sweetness travel?