The Pig Scrolls. Paul Shipton. Candlewick Press, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. References to ancient Greece abound in this relentlessly funny adventure starring a one-time member /5(3). Paul Shipton has books on Goodreads with ratings. Paul Shipton’s most popular book is The Pig Scrolls by Gryllus the Pig. Welcome to a comical quest full of nonstop action and oddly familiar characters, from an oversensitive, lyre-strumming poet to the sinister, snappily dressed Epicurus; from chimeras and Stymphalian birds to the testy gods and goddesses themselves. With its abundant appropriation of Greek history and myth and its galloping humor perfectly pitched to middle-grade kids, The Pig Scrolls is sure to.
Paul Shipton has books on Goodreads with ratings. Paul Shipton's most popular book is The Pig Scrolls by Gryllus the Pig. Gryllus is a pig. Well, not strictly speaking a pig. He's a man who got turned into a pig. The Pig Scrolls by Paul Shipton My Rating: The pig scrolls is a Greek mythology retelling while also throwing in a it of a more modern twist. The main character and point of view is Gryllus, a man who when turned into a pig found it to be much easier than his life as a man and decided to stay that way.
The Pig Scrolls, by Paul Shipton, is a young adult comedy adventure novel about a talking pig and his endeavours to save the world. The novel is set in Ancient Greece with many, often comical, references to ancient Greek mythology and life. The characters include all the major Ancient Greek gods, some minor deities, the young Homer and Sibyl, a prophetess in training at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. The Pig Scrolls. Paul Shipton. Candlewick Press, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. References to ancient Greece abound in this relentlessly funny adventure starring a one-time member. A translation of an ancient Greek manuscript written by Gryllus, a talking pig who was once a man, which describes the many adventures that he and his companions--a junior prophetess named Sybil and a bumbling goatherd--experience while traveling to Delphi to try to prevent the universe from coming to an end.
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