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PIG Reading Books
Interest Age 7 - 12 years | Reading Age 8 - 9 years
There are currently eighteen reading books in the Pig series. The books are best read in the order listed below, but this is not essential.
PIG and the Talking Poo
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841675206 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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Pig has a huge brown plastic talking dog poo. (He knows it doesn’t talk really – he’s not bonkers or anything). But he does miss his poo lots when he loses it – mainly because it reminds him of his dad.
So, helped by his best friend Raj, Pig tries to find his lost poo. Can they find it – or will Pig and Raj both die trying?
PIG and the Fancy Pants
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841675237 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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Pig is getting dressed for school. When he can’t find his pants, he puts on his sister’s sparkly pink Drama Diva panties instead.
Things get difficult when he has to do PE with the whole class – and that includes Kevin Hardwick and most of his gang.
How can Pig avoid showing his pretty pants to the whole class?
PIG and the Long Fart
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841675244 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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Pig has fallen in love with a REAL girl. Her name is Tiffany, she chews gum a lot and she’s in the bottom Maths set.
This is the story of how Tiffany and Pig got together, which is the happy bit. And how THE FART squeezed between them and drove them apart. Which is the sad bit and not at all funny like Raj thinks it is.
PIG Plays Cupid
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841675213 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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Pig and Raj decide that Pig’s mum should join the Kissy Kissy Online Dating Site (‘for fun and friendship’).
The problem is, they don’t tell Pig’s mum. So when two men arrive to take Pig’s mum out, things go from worse to even worse than that.
Do people on online dating sites always tell lies?
PIG gets the Black Death (nearly)
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841675220 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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On the way to school, Raj tells Pig it’s injections day. That’s bad news for Pig: he HATES injections.
Then in History Pig learns all about the Black Death. He decides that he does need that injection after all – otherwise he is DEFINITELY going to die of the Black Death.
But getting that injection isn’t going to be that easy.
PIG Saves the Day
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781841676180 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 1 |
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Pig wants to be in the school football team, but there is one problem: he’s rubbish at football. Then the team goalie gets injured. (He’s looking at the other school’s cheerleaders AND walking at the same time. He can’t do two things at once.)
So Pig ends up in goal. Can he save the day?
PIG and the Ice-cream Cake
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276082 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig is having an unbirthday party. His birthday was ages ago, but still, a party is a party! Even better, his dad has promised to come over from Spain to be there.
Will his dad turn up for the party? Will Tiffany get to be a pink zombie? Will Pig have a great time?
What do you think?
PIG Skives off School
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276099 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig thinks you should have a few days off school every week, if you want to. Say just two or three days each week. What do you think?
So Pig and Raj decide to skive off school, to watch a TV programme being made in the High Street. They have a great day, and even get to meet the TV presenter.
Will their perfect day have a perfect ending?
PIG is a Blue Baboon's Bottom
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276105 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig's history class at school have to bring in something they don't use any more. It all starts off well, but then things go wrong. Pig accuses Raj of something terrible.
Raj is very upset - Pig has really gone too far this time.
Can Pig do anything to show Raj how sorry he is? And can Raj forgive Pig?
SuperPig!
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276112 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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When Pig's best friend Raj is suddenly taken ill, Pig has to get him to hospital as soon as possible.
With the help of a wheelbarrow and an empty bus lane, Pig does his best.
Can Pig save Raj from exploding? (OK, it's not quite that bad. But it's still bad.)
PIG and the Baldy Cat
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276129 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig has only ever had a pet hamster, nits and a verruca called Vincent. So when he and Raj find a cat tied up in a shopping bag, Pig decides to keep it - even though it is the ugliest cat he has ever seen.
But Pig's mum has other ideas. She says Baldy Cat must go.
Will Pig get to keep his new pet? Will they end up best mates?
PIG Leaves Home (for a bit)
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781276136 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig's mum wants to get a divorce from Pig's dad. She's got a new man, Bob, who Bob-bob-bobs around the house.
But Pig doesn't like this, so he decides to leave home. He'll go to Spain to live with his dad. Easy!
But it isn't easy. It's scary - and then Pig drops the only passport he's got down the loo.
PIG Tells a Whopping Great Fib
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275351 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Raj spots Bob Kissing Tish (the one with pink hair) outside the Spare Gold Shop.
Bob is Pig's mum's boyfriend. How could he do this to Mum?
So Pig hatches a plan to get rid of Bob the Love Rat.
PIG is Hairy Snotter
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275368 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig finally gets to go on his surfing holiday with the school. (He got the holiday because he was in the Head Teacher's Secret Toilet without asking.)
While Pig is away, Suki tells him that Mum has got rid of all his stuff. From now on, he will have to live under the stairs.
This must be Bob's Revenge! What can Pig do?
PIG and the Rainbow Hair
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275375 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig is fed up with getting picked on - especially by that Dean Gosnall, who always wants a fight.
Pig decides that his red hair is the problem. So Gran and Suki help him to change its colour.
That's when things go from bad to worse for Pig.
PIG and the Big Quiz
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275382 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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There's a school Big Quiz against The Academy (the posh school) - and it's going to be on TV as well.
Raj makes Pig join the team, but the problem is, Pig doesn't know anything.
The Academy are going to win a gazillion to nil.
PIG Gets Angry
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275399 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Pig's mum tells him she wants to get a divorce from Pig's dad. Pig gets really angry and upset - I mean, it's his DAD!
Then Pig misbehaves in class, and he has to stay behind after school. That's when he learns something that starts to make him think again.
Can Pig forgive his mum?
PIG's Season's Finale
Author: Barbara Catchpole |
ISBN: 9781781275405 |
Price: £5.99 |
No. of Pages: 52 |
Set: 2 |
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Harry the hamster is ill. That costs Mum thirty quid at the vets.
Then Suki gets stuck down the drain on the High Street and they have to call the fire brigade to get her out.
Then Kim and Fireman Sam get into a fight. Then Gran gets herself arrested and loses her teeth.
It's just like Eastenders!