PIGGINS & THE ROYAL WEDDING
Illustrated by Jane Dyer
Harcourt 1988
ISBN# 0-15-261687-X Harcourt hardcover
ISBN# 0-15-200078-X Voyager paperback
The third Piggins book to be published. I wrote
the books about Piggins because I love mystery stories and am
also a great fan of the Masterpiece Theater series called "Upstairs,
Downstairs." I also wrote them especially for Jane Dyer who
showed me her amazing drawings and won me over with her delicious
and particular Victoriana style. In fact I would write more than
those three Piggins book if Jane Dyer, had not said "Only
if it is Piggins on the Titanic." You see, while it takes
me about six weeks to write one of the stories, it takes her about
eight months--with hard research--to produce the art work for
each book. But perhaps one day Jane Dyer will say "More Piggins!"
just like many of my fans. And then I will write "Piggins
Noel" or perhaps "Piggins and the Highland Fling."
Can't you see him in a Scottish kilt? I think his mother was a
McSwine. Or maybe "Piggins by the Sea" dressed in an
old-fashioned bathing costume. A Junior Library Guild Award