Tag Archives: Pigs

The Seven Chinese Sisters

Rating: (14 reviews)
Author: Kathy Tucker
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

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(Ages 5-8) Once there were seven Chinese sisters who lived together and took care of each other. Each one had a special talent. When baby Seventh Sister is snatched by a hungry dragon, her loving sisters race to save her.
In Kathy Tucker’s delightful update of [...]

I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Toot & Puddle)

Rating: (20 reviews)
Author: Holly Hobbie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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Toot goes to a family reunion in Scotland, promising Puddle that he’ll be back in Woodcock Pocket in time for Christmas. But a huge snowstorm strands him far away from home on Christmas Eve! As Puddle waits anxiously for his friend, another holiday [...]

P.B. Bear’s Christmas

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Author: Lee Davis
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P.B. Bear is counting the days until Christmas! Young children will love celebrating Christmas with P.B. Bear and his friends. They can: guess what’s inside the box from Grandma, watch as P.B. and his friends make snowballs into a snowman, count the stars on Christmas Eve, and follow P.B. [...]

The Christmas Surprise (Templar)

Author: A.J. Wood
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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A family of pigs celebrates Christmas by telling each one’s favorite part of the holiday, but the youngest piglet discovers that his favorite is right outside the window.

Little Oink

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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From the creators of Little Pea and Little Hoot comes this tidy tale of a decidedly different pig. Little Oink is a neat little fellow. Clean clean clean that’s all he wants to do. But Mama and Papa won’t have it! They say in order to [...]

The Three Pigs

Rating: (71 reviews)
Author: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books

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This picture book begins placidly (and familiarly) enough, with three pigs collecting materials and going off to build houses of straw, sticks, and bricks. But the wolf”s huffing and puffing blows the first pig right out of the story . . . and into the realm of [...]

Pete & Pickles

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Publisher: Philomel

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Pete is a perfectly predictable, practical, uncomplicated pig. At least, he was . . . before a runaway circus elephant named Pickles stampeded into his life, needing a friend. Pickles is larger than life and overflowing with imagination. She takes Pete swandiving off Niagara Falls. (Sort of.) And sledding down the Matterhorn. (Sort [...]

If You Give a Pig a Party (If You Give…)

Rating: (22 reviews)
Author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
Publisher: Laura Geringer

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If you give a pig a party,she’s going to ask for someballoons. When you give her the balloons, she’ll want to decorate the house. When she’s finished, she’ll put on her favorite dress. Then she’ll call all her friends — Mouse, Moose, and more.
The little pig [...]

The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes (Sandpiper Books)

Rating: (42 reviews)
Author: Dubose Heyward
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

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The country bunny attains the exalted position of Easter Bunny in spite of her responsibilities as the mother of twenty-one children.

Not a Stick

Rating: (10 reviews)
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Publisher: HarperCollins

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Antoinette Portis again captures the thrill of when pretend feels so real that it becomes real. With a stick in hand, the options are endless—whether it’s conducting an orchestra, painting a masterpiece, or slaying a dragon—give a child a stick and let imagination take over and the magic begin.

There Is a Bird On Your Head! (Elephant and Piggie)

Rating: (7 reviews)
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Publisher: Hyperion

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In There is a Bird on Your Head!, Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head- two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Rating: (140 reviews)
Author: Jon Scieszka
Publisher: Puffin

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“There has obviously been some kind of mistake,” writes Alexander T. Wolf from the pig penitentiary where he’s doing time for his alleged crimes of 10 years ago. Here is the “real” story of the three little pigs whose houses are huffed and puffed to smithereens… from the wolf’s [...]

Olivia . . . and the Missing Toy

Rating: (48 reviews)
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Publisher: Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books

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Olivia, like many young pigs, experiences life very intensely. She is utterly obsessed with having her mother make her a red soccer shirt (even though the team color is green), until, of course, she discovers that her favorite toy, her very best toy, is missing, at which point she [...]

Olivia Counts (Olivia)

Rating: (14 reviews)
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Publisher: Atheneum
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Learning to count to 10 is no chore when accompanied by Olivia, piglet superstar of Ian Falconer’s Caldecott Honor Book, Olivia, and Olivia Saves the Circus. Preschoolers will giggle to see reminders of Olivia’s mischief in this simple counting book: “one ball, two bows, three pots of paint”… on up to [...]

Piggies

Rating: (24 reviews)
Author: Audrey Wood
Publisher: Red Wagon Books

Book Description
This beloved and bestselling book from Audrey and Don Wood has been delighting children–and sending them off to bed with laughter and sweet dreams–for years. The entertaining antics of ten marvelous pigs in Piggies have made this book a classic. Now here is the new sturdy [...]

Bath Time!

Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Book Description
Hey! Hey! What do you say! It’s time to take a bath today.
From the irrepressible Sandra Boynton comes an irresistible storybook for bath time. Bath Time! is waterproof, nontoxic, completely baby-safe—and it floats!
It’s a classic tale of pig meets paint. Spattered with colors from a long day at the [...]

Olivia’s Opposites

Rating: (13 reviews)
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Publisher: Atheneum
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Olivia knows all about opposites. Sometimes this porcine heroine of Ian Falconer’s Caldecott Honor Book, Olivia, is “plain,” attired only in red briefs. Other times she is “fancy,” with high-heeled dress-up shoes, lipstick, pearls, and a big red bow. Sometimes—-when Olivia is running the circus, for example (Olivia Saves the Circus)–she [...]

Olivia Helps with Christmas (Olivia Series)

Rating: (10 reviews)
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Publisher: Atheneum
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Everyone’s favorite Caldecott honor-winning porcine and #1 Kris Cringle enthusiast is helping to make the season brighter than ever. Christmas is coming, and Olivia is incredibly busy. She has to wait for Santa, make sure dad sets up the tree, wait for Santa, watch mom make the Christmas dinner, wait for [...]

What’s Wrong, Little Pookie?

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Sandra Boynton
Publisher: Robin Corey Books

Book Description
POOKIE’S UPSET AND POOKIE’S MOM cannot figure out why. And Pookie isn’t helping, either. This familiar scenario is told with Sandra Boynton’s signature humor, in both story and art. Caregivers and young children will laugh their way out of their sorrow as Mom and Pookie work [...]

Toot & Puddle: Let It Snow (Toot and Puddle)

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Holly Hobbie
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers

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Celebrate the last book in the beloved series with a Christmas story about the gift of friendship and free limited edition Christmas ornaments. With a nod to previous books in the Toot Puddle series, Holly Hobbie, shows readers that the best kind of present for [...]