The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig - Hardcover

Stamp, Emer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0545694663 ISBN 13: 9780545694667

Publisher: Scholastic Press, 2015

Synopsis

This laugh-out-loud funny debut will please boys, girls, pigs, vegetarian farmers, ducks--everyone save for evil chickens.
This is me. I is Pig! If you is reading this, you can read Pig, and you is very clever. Unless you is an Evil Chicken, in which case, don't read this!
Pig is troubled. Usually, life on the Farm is pretty good. He has yummy slops, a true friend in Duck, mud to roll in, and Farmer to scratch his back and call him Roast Pig (his special nickname). But the Evil Chickens are up to something evil, involving a tractor-rocket. And Duck has something else to show his porcine friend: a shed where Farmer prepares to eat Pig for dinner!
What can Pig do? If he goes in the Chickens' trocket, he might run out of slops. If he stays, he'll become sausages and bacon. But if Pig and Duck can come up with a plan that involves the chicken house, the trocket, some itchy sheep, and an imaginary fox--maybe they can fix the Farm...or maybe they'll land in even more trouble. Don't miss the hysterically funny debut from Emer Stamp and Pig!

About this title

About the Author:

Growing up on a farm in Devon, Emer's first ambition was to be a vet. But her ambition was cruelly dashed upon the jagged rocks of career failure by her inability to get a grade of any sort at A-Level biology.
Emer is a keen runner, an over-enthusiastic kick-boxer, and a terible speller.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 1–3—An innocent pig attempts to escape his cruel fate in this illustrated early chapter book. Pig loves his life at the farm: he gets plenty of slops and back scratches from the farmer, he has Duck and Cow to keep him company, and the trouble-making chickens can be quickly dispatched with a few well-placed farts. But when Duck finally explains just what the farmer has in store for his beloved "Roast Pig," Pig is devastated by the betrayal. Fortunately, the chickens are evil geniuses, and they want Pig to fly their newly invented Trocket (tractor-rocket) to Pluto, offering Pig an opportunity to escape his impending slaughter. Plenty of hilarious mishaps ensue, with Pig drawing on all of his ingenuity to find a way to rid himself of both the farmer and those meddling chickens once and for all. Pig's story is written in a diary format with childlike black ink cartoons adding plenty of humor. His earnest voice and love of silly bathroom humor will appeal to the youngest independent readers, though they may struggle a bit with his awkward grammar (Human isn't Pig's first language) and occasional British slang terms, such as sat nav for GPS. VERDICT Purchase where there is a strong need for transitional chapter books.—Chelsea Couillard-Smith, Sacramento Public Library, CA

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0545694663
• ISBN 13: 9780545694667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192
• Illustrator: Stamp Emer