Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Animals - Pigs

1st Place Winner in the 2016 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards in Children's Chapter Book category

Bienvenido a San Juan, Puerto Rico

Come join Sir Pigglesworth, his mom, dad and his good friends, JoAnn and Bill, as they tour this tropical island paradise, from getting bombarded with coconuts by monkeys in the El Yunque rainforest to engaging in a pretend battle at Fort Morro to chasing iguanas.

Sir has been invited to be the 2016 commencement speaker at a prominent San Juan university. While there, our frisky piglet gets into his usual...

When Orange decides he needs to improve his Spanish skills, he and Jes head for Central America. A nervous little chihuahua begs them to help her find the Tacos Dorados, and the search takes them across Nicaragua. Together they encounter excitement, danger, and a little bit of Spanish vocabulary as they journey down the Rio San Juan. Laugh and learn with Jes and Orange in the Land of Lakes and Volcanoes.

Kathleen had never thought about rescuing pigs before . . .

Ozzie Osboar is a very sick runt pig. At two-days old he arrives at Locket's Meadow, an animal rescue, where the owner, Kathleen, refuses to give up on him.

Locket, the farm's burro, can hear the voices of animals who are far away. She talks to a pair of mama pigs who had made a daring escape from cages in a factory farm and miraculously survived a flood. The pair of sisters is at an animal hospital, afraid of what will come next, but knowing they'll do anything to avoid living in tiny crates...

Peaches the Piglet is based on a true story about a tiny but determined girl piglet who wanted to escape being sent to a market farm in downtown Toronto. She wanted to stay on the glorious farm where she was born and where she played her days away with the other farm animals. But in spite of her protests she found herself being loaded into the back of the truck and taken away. But the courageous little piglet was not about to give up! She discovered a way to escape through the side of the truck and plopped right onto the busy 401 highway. Lucky for the piglet she was rescued and...