Pete & Pickles

Pete is a pig who likes things orderly. He is sensible, steady and happy with a life that holds no surprises, until a circus elephant named Pickles runs away and crashes into his farm looking for a friend.

Pickles is enormous in every way, and her imagination is even bigger. She drags Pete into adventures that are part daring, part make-believe: a swan dive off Niagara Falls, a sled run down the Matterhorn. Pete, who never expected to enjoy this sort of thing, starts to have the time of his life.

Then Pickles takes things one step too far, and Pete tells her to go. Quiet and predictable turns out to be less satisfying than he thought, and he has to work out what he has lost.

Berkeley Breathed, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, brings a funny, warm-hearted touch to this picture book about how rare and valuable a true friend can be.