Pig #1: The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig
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“Children and adults alike will be delighted by this brilliantly silly and surreal story” – BooktrustThe first book in the Diaries of Pig series of chapter books – filled with Pig’s hilarious illustrations, wisdom and awful grammar on every page. We love Pig (we can’t help it), but Pig loves Farmer, and he can’t help it either. After all, Farmer gives Pig yummy slops and special back scratches, and calls him Sausage and seems to love him more, the fatter he gets. Just as well Pig doesn’t speak any Farmer. But Duck does (Duck’s clever like that), and he’s determined his best friend should know the truth. This is tough for Pig. But Pig won’t just sit there and weep (though we may do, on his behalf), because there’s help from an unexpected quarter: the Evil Chickens have a plan…
- Told in an original, hilarious and unforgettable voice and packed with Pig’s own drawings, this is fresh and silly laugh-out-loud humour that children (and adults) will love
- Author and illustrator Emer Stamp was the Creative Director behind the cult-hit John Lewis Christmas adverts
- Perfect for fans of Tom Gates, Diary of a Wimpy Kid and the Babe films
PRAISE FOR THE UNBELIEVABLE TOP SECRET DIARY OF PIG “Witty, pacey and perfectly pitched for early readers your child won’t have seen anything like this before”. - Junior“The jovial diary entries of Pig, and the sheer exuberance of both the telling and the imagination involved in the plot are on every page and are a sheer delight. I was not joking when I said that adults will take to this.”- The Bookbag“Children and adults alike will be delighted by this brilliantly silly and surreal story”- Booktrust“children will laugh themselves silly with Pig’s unique voice, terrible grammar, and super funny illustrations throughout each book.” – Books For Topics
BOOKS BY EMER STAMP
- The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig (Pig, book 1)
- Super Amazing Diary of Pig (Pig, book 2)
- The Seriously Extraordinary Diary of Pig (Pig, book 3)
- The (big, fat, totally bonkers) Diary of Pig (Pig, book 4)
Product Details
Series
Pig (book 1)
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781407139197
Publisher
Date published
March 6th, 2014
Lexile measure
750L
Accelerated Reader
AR book level: 4.3; Middle years; 2.0 points
Other details
- 192 pages
Condition
New
Part of this Series
Reviews
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Nathan
on 1 June 2014Favourite book!
I got the book from Santa and started to read it straight away as it looked weird. But my thoughts changed after reading it. I loved it! I have now read it over 5 times, definitely a must buy.
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Pat
on 17 February 2015
Emer Stamp - my heroine!
Yesterday, I saw Emer Stamp speak at the South Bank Centre with my 11-year-old son. This morning, he came downstairs to tell me that he had just read the first chapter of The Secret Diary of Pig. Not an especially surprising announcement, perhaps – except that he is very dyslexic and has NEVER read anything by himself before. Learning to read has been a struggle for him, so it’s a delight to hear him filled with such enthusiasm for Emer’s books.
He and I read Emer’s second book together (no idea why we started with that one, but…). In fact, we finished it yesterday morning, just before coming to see Emer speak. At last, his skill was just about advanced enough to enable him to read one page (v. slowly) to my three or four, and it has been the first of anything – book, worksheet, cereal packet – he has read that engaged his sense of humour and wasn’t way too young and halting for his interest. It took us two months to read, taking just a few pages every day.
And now he has picked up Emer’s other book entirely on his own inspiration and read the first chapter while lying in bed this morning. He just told me what happens in the chapter, and is intent on reading the whole book by himself, no reading aloud. A year ago, I honestly thought this day would never come. I’m so proud of him.