THE STREAMLINED PIG
by Margaret Wise Brown
This just misses, and it is hard to put the finger on the reason. A nonsense tale of a little rich boy and his fancy farm and of how they got the animals away by plane when the floods swept over them. It ought to be amusing — it has echoes of Phil Stong's High Water, but where that is grand comedy, this approaches farce, and seems a bit strained and unjuvenile.