nukeswife Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 My 7.5 year old son is obsessed with pigs. We have exhausted all the picture books with pig characters at our libraries, and just finished the 6 Mercy Watson books I found there. I now need more ideas for books with pig characters. Do you know of any good pig books! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tita Gidge Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Dick King-Smith is your guy. He's usually pretty well-found at libraries, and I've always seen him at used bookstores. We had a pig lover here, too, and he wrote several funny chapter books. A few that come to mind: Pigs Might Fly, All Pigs Are Beautiful, Daggie Dogfoot, the Sheep Pig, .. and, of course, Babe. There are a few more but the names escape me. There are a few featuring a pig named Lollipop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Pigs from A to Z (Geisert) Freddy series (Brooks) Suddenly!: A Preston Pig Story (McNaughton) Amanda Pig series (Leeuwen) Olivia series (Falconer) Perfect the Pig (Jeschke) The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Trivizas) The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (Scieszka) The Three Little Javelinas (Lowell) The Three Ninja Pigs (Schwartz) Richard Scarry Busytown books (the firemen are pigs) Pig and Crow (Chorao) Toot and Puddle (Hobbie) Pigs Will Be Pigs series by Axelrod -- fun with math, money, time, cooking, etc. Charlotte's Web (White) -- read aloud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyforlatin Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Oh my, if he loves pigs, you need to read aloud The Adventures of Mrs. Piggins. It's irreverent and humorous and guaranteed to get a bunch of giggles. http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Nanny-Piggins-R-Spratt/dp/B0062GJQGK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 We've already done charlotte's web numerous times. Most of the other books listed are picture books we've also read many times. I haven't done the piggens book. I think the library had one about nanny piggens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Forgot about Babe that's a good suggestion. I'll check for that one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 We've already done charlotte's web numerous times. Most of the other books listed are picture books we've also read many times. I haven't done the piggens book. I think the library had one about nanny piggens Well, how about books with a pig, but who is a minor character or in just a chapter or so: - Lester, in Mrs. Piggle Wiggle (MacDonald) - Little Pig Robinson, from Beatrix Potter stories - Gub-Gub, in Dr. Doo-Little (Lofting) - the pig brothers, in Fern Valley (Stewart) - Piglet, in Winnie the Pooh (Milne) Or, two others with pig protagonists: - Poppleton series (Rylant) - Ace, the Very Important Pig (King-Smith) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Just in case you haven't come across them: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! and Pigs Ahoy! are wonderful picture books. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 The Freddy books by Walter R. Brooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 We've already done charlotte's web numerous times. Most of the other books listed are picture books we've also read many times. I haven't done the piggens book. I think the library had one about nanny piggens Lori D suggested the Oliver and Amanda pig series. These are longish readers, and there are tons of them. My library has 19, I think. They are very cute. Her other suggestion, the Freddy books, is composed of longer chapter books. My library has almost 20 of them. So, she actually suggested nearly 40 chapter books from these two alone. :) Poppleton is a pig, too. There are quite a few in that series. Dick King-Smith has quite a few pig books as well. You'd be surprised. "The Petsitters Club" has one volume (#5) in which they watch a pig. Beatrix Potter has Pigling Bland, Stolz has Quentin Corn, and Van Nutt has the Lucky Hart series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiana Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Freddy the Pig series, another vote. Hilarious books (when my mother was a girl, she used to read in her treehouse, and one day, when reading a freddy book, she laughed so hard she fell out of the tree and broke her arm.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumto2 Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Poppleton was a huge favorite at our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Dick King-Smith is your guy. He's usually pretty well-found at libraries, and I've always seen him at used bookstores. We had a pig lover here, too, and he wrote several funny chapter books. A few that come to mind: Pigs Might Fly, All Pigs Are Beautiful, Daggie Dogfoot, the Sheep Pig, .. and, of course, Babe. There are a few more but the names escape me. There are a few featuring a pig named Lollipop. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 I think Animal Ark had a pig as the focus of a book or two (my daughter was obsessed with horses and kittens at that age). There are a number of kid fairly easy series based around vets or animal rescue, and those might have a few pig titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down_the_Rabbit_Hole Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Freddy the Pig series, another vote. Hilarious books (when my mother was a girl, she used to read in her treehouse, and one day, when reading a freddy book, she laughed so hard she fell out of the tree and broke her arm.) These are funny. The first time one of these were read, my dh read it to the boys. The door to the bedroom was shut and you would hear mumbling and then peals of laughter, I was finally called in to read because dh was laughing so hard. Dd loves the vocabulary. She makes me reread paragraphs just to hear the words again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalmia Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 It is temporarily out of stock, but we love Astrid Lindgren. Maybe your library has it. Emil's Clever Pig http://www.amazon.com/Emils-Clever-Pig-Astrid-Lindgren/dp/0192727567/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2T0TCCKZQODCZ&coliid=I2Y3RM1BPFO8HR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Just in case you haven't come across them: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! and Pigs Ahoy! are wonderful picture books. Laura These are some of our favorites and get pulled out quite often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwin Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 Pig Scrolls, Pig Who Saved the World by Paul Shipton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted February 26, 2013 Author Share Posted February 26, 2013 Lori D suggested the Oliver and Amanda pig series. These are longish readers, and there are tons of them. My library has 19, I think. They are very cute. Her other suggestion, the Freddy books, is composed of longer chapter books. My library has almost 20 of them. So, she actually suggested nearly 40 chapter books from these two alone. :) Poppleton is a pig, too. There are quite a few in that series. Dick King-Smith has quite a few pig books as well. You'd be surprised. "The Petsitters Club" has one volume (#5) in which they watch a pig. Beatrix Potter has Pigling Bland, Stolz has Quentin Corn, and Van Nutt has the Lucky Hart series. I didn't want to come across as snarky toward LoriD I'm sorry if I did. It's just that I've been at this for about 4 years now, so we've exhausted what our library carries of those series. These aren't books for him to read, these are the books I use as read alouds for him. Again sorry if I seemed ungrateful or snarky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 maybe he needs to start dictating his own pig stories to you? There is a very famous writer, whose name escapes me, who said she became a writer because she couldn't find a book she wanted to read. I am not being glib. I have done this a number of times with my own kids. When they have run out of books on their favorite topic we start on them making their own. Aliki has a great book for kids about how a book is made. They do the illustrations and everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted February 26, 2013 Share Posted February 26, 2013 I didn't want to come across as snarky toward LoriD I'm sorry if I did. It's just that I've been at this for about 4 years now, so we've exhausted what our library carries of those series. You may have exhausted all pig stories, then. Beatrix Potter also has Little Pig Robinson. Arnold Lobel also has a book of pig limericks called Pigericks. How about Peter Porker, Spectacular Spider-Ham? Or Bob Burke's Third Pig Detective Agency series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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