<p><i><b>¿There is,¿ said the marzipan pig, ¿such sweetness in me!¿</b></i><br><br>From the inimitable team of Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake, the pair behind <i>Captain Najork </i>and <i>The Twenty Elephant Restaurant</i>, comes an enchanting story of a little pig made of marzipan. <br><br>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?</p>