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| Small Pig (I Can Read Book 2) | 
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| Creator: Arnold Lobel
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 49866
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.2
ISBN: 0064441202
EAN: 9780064441209
ASIN: 0064441202
Publication Date: August 5, 1988
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Condition: Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include "From the library of" labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.
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Product Description
After the farmer's wife cleans up all of his good, soft mud, Small Pig decides to run away. He's sure to find a better pigpen in the city. But, once there, the puddle he thought was mud is not mud at all! And now this small pig has one BIG problem.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 . May 7, 2008
Such a cute little book! Arnold Lobel is a fantastic author and illustrator, and this is practically in the lines of farm classics as "Charlotte's Web" on a smaller scale. Very cute, and you can't help but love the big and his owners.
 fatal printing errors on a classic February 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"the small pig was angry"
This was my son's favorite book when he was two: I read this over and over to him. I ordered it for my 2 month old grandson (ok, bit early) but both the first, which I returned, and 2nd copies had the 2nd signature, that is pp 17-32, upside down. This must be a publisher's printing error that permeates the entire run. Be sure to have Amazon check every book before it is shipped to make sure this is corrected.
Otherwise it would be five stars. Absolute classic.
 A great book November 24, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book for parents to read to their kids! My mom read this book to me and my sisters when we were little and now I'll be reading it to my son.
a finely aged and well worn classic August 14, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
my dad used to read this book to me when i was a small boy. it was always one of my favorites to hear and i believe my dad's favorite to read. he had a way of reading this story that was so engaging. i still have that very same book tattered and worn having also been read many many times by me to my three boys, now mid to late teens. the story is one im sure many people can relate to. something akin to the grass is always greener on the other side, be careful what you wish for and sometimes its better to leave well enough alone. at least thats what i seem to get out of it. small pig lives on a country farm with the farmer and his wife. small pig is heavy into his mud. the farmer is cool with this but his wife is not. she decieds to clean it up using a monstrous vacuum cleaner. small pig is not with a clean pigpen so he runs away. he happens upon various places with mud that look good at first but turn out to be inhospitable. eventually he finds his way to the big city. noise and filth abound and he finds what he thinks is a wonderful mud pit but turns out to be a cement square for a sidewalk. next thing he knows he's stuck and no matter how hard he tries he cannot get out. slowly people begin to notice his predicament and the crowd eventually swells to mob like proportions. mean while the farmer and his wife are frantically searching for small pig. as the fire department shows up to rescue small pig the farmer and his wife happen by. "whats going on here?" the farmer ask's a bystander. "oh nothing, just a pig stuck in the sidewalk" the man replies. the farmer and his wife make their way thru the crowd. simultaineously small pig is free'd. they speed their way back home to the country where small pig is given all the mud he needs. "he sits down and sinks down into the good soft mud". i will go my whole life remembering this book as my dad read it to me and how i read it to my son's and thats what makes it such a treasured book.
A little masterpiece March 22, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
_Small Pig_ is as good as the books in Lobel's Frog and Toad saga, which is high praise indeed. It's a story told with Zen-like simplicity and humor. Serene acceptance is the best way to handle life's annoyances, if you can manage it. Asked one time why so many of his characters seem to be neurotic, Lobel said: "They didn't start out that way but, if you talk in short, choppy sentences and repeat words a lot, you begin to sound neurotic quickly." If you have a small child, introduce him or her to the world of reading with this little masterpiece of children's literature.
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