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Mercy Watson Fights Crime
One night, Mercy hears a noise. An unlikely thief is robbing the Watsons! But as the thief soon discovers, crime doesn’t pay. Not when there is a very large pig involved.
Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise
It’s Halloween on Deckawoo Drive, and Mr. and Mrs. Watson have decided on the perfect costume for Mercy. Mercy is encouraged by the promise of treats. For what could be better than a treat-getting adventure? Especially if it happens to involve a chase. . . .
One night, Mercy hears a noise. An unlikely thief is robbing the Watsons! But as the thief soon discovers, crime doesn’t pay. Not when there is a very large pig involved.
Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise
It’s Halloween on Deckawoo Drive, and Mr. and Mrs. Watson have decided on the perfect costume for Mercy. Mercy is encouraged by the promise of treats. For what could be better than a treat-getting adventure? Especially if it happens to involve a chase. . . .
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First published July 10, 2007
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Kate DiCamillo
163 books11k followersKate DiCamillo, the newly named National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2014–2015, says about stories, “When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.” Born in Philadelphia, the author lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, five days a week.
Kate DiCamillo's own journey is something of a dream come true. After moving to Minnesota from Florida in her twenties, homesickness and a bitter winter helped inspire Because of Winn-Dixie - her first published novel, which, remarkably, became a runaway bestseller and snapped up a Newbery Honor. "After the Newbery committee called me, I spent the whole day walking into walls," she says. "I was stunned. And very, very happy."
Her second novel, The Tiger Rising, went on to become a National Book Award Finalist. Since then, the master storyteller has written for a wide range of ages, including two comical early-chapter-book series - Mercy Watson, which stars a "porcine wonder" with an obsession for buttered toast, and Bink & Gollie, which celebrates the tall and short of a marvelous friendship - as well as a luminous holiday picture book, Great Joy.
Her latest novel, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, won the 2014 Newbery Medal. It was released in fall 2013 to great acclaim, including five starred reviews, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Flora & Ulysses is a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format - a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black and white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell. It was a 2013 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner and was chosen by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Common Sense Media as a Best Book of the Year.
Kate DiCamillo's own journey is something of a dream come true. After moving to Minnesota from Florida in her twenties, homesickness and a bitter winter helped inspire Because of Winn-Dixie - her first published novel, which, remarkably, became a runaway bestseller and snapped up a Newbery Honor. "After the Newbery committee called me, I spent the whole day walking into walls," she says. "I was stunned. And very, very happy."
Her second novel, The Tiger Rising, went on to become a National Book Award Finalist. Since then, the master storyteller has written for a wide range of ages, including two comical early-chapter-book series - Mercy Watson, which stars a "porcine wonder" with an obsession for buttered toast, and Bink & Gollie, which celebrates the tall and short of a marvelous friendship - as well as a luminous holiday picture book, Great Joy.
Her latest novel, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, won the 2014 Newbery Medal. It was released in fall 2013 to great acclaim, including five starred reviews, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Flora & Ulysses is a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an exciting new format - a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black and white by up-and-coming artist K. G. Campbell. It was a 2013 Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner and was chosen by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Common Sense Media as a Best Book of the Year.
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June 23, 2024
3.5⭐️
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April 14, 2018
This is another set of stories about Mercy the large pig. In these stories she tries to fight crime and she is dressed as a princess. Funny calamities.
June 16, 2019
Cute cute series!!
October 7, 2020
Great stories for young kids.
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January 17, 2025Simplistic, zany, short, and surprising. My kids love listening to these stories. I can listen to them multiple times without going entirely crazy, which means they can't be that bad, I suppose!
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November 12, 2025omg guys i just remembered the mercy watson books. did anyone else read these? they're so amazing and i want to reread all of them
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December 8, 2025mercy isn't a pig! she's a porcine wonder!!!
August 11, 2017
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My review of the series:
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This book is ridiculously humorous. Simply too good for this world, to stretch things into the realm of the untrue.
(Oh, look at that, it started to rain. Fun.)
All the characters are superb. And there being a pig in the series (in fact the series being about a pig) is astoundingly ingenious. I'll right off say that Kate DiCamillo is a natural at writing pigs. This is an expertly written pig. The humans are brilliantly fashioned as well. (Oh, its raining hard. I think I heard some thunder. More fun.) (Well, wouldn't you know it? The rain stopped.) Each individual has a distinctive hilarious quality or a quality that can be used to be distinctly hilarious.
Really, the whole thing just makes a person laugh.
But if you take away the comical aspect of the thing, is it destroyed? Well, it wouldn't exactly exist, but my point is, it is extraordinarily good writing. The very highest class of literature all in an "infinitely" amusing package.
The plots are relatively simple, but it is of no consequence for they work perfectly with this type of story.
So, if you want to experience the pinnacle of hilarity and all the virtues thereof and thereabout, I recommend that you read this, or far better, listen to this with the audiobooks that are read by Ron McLarty. He has reading Mercy Watson down to a fine art.
My review of the series:
===================
This book is ridiculously humorous. Simply too good for this world, to stretch things into the realm of the untrue.
(Oh, look at that, it started to rain. Fun.)
All the characters are superb. And there being a pig in the series (in fact the series being about a pig) is astoundingly ingenious. I'll right off say that Kate DiCamillo is a natural at writing pigs. This is an expertly written pig. The humans are brilliantly fashioned as well. (Oh, its raining hard. I think I heard some thunder. More fun.) (Well, wouldn't you know it? The rain stopped.) Each individual has a distinctive hilarious quality or a quality that can be used to be distinctly hilarious.
Really, the whole thing just makes a person laugh.
But if you take away the comical aspect of the thing, is it destroyed? Well, it wouldn't exactly exist, but my point is, it is extraordinarily good writing. The very highest class of literature all in an "infinitely" amusing package.
The plots are relatively simple, but it is of no consequence for they work perfectly with this type of story.
So, if you want to experience the pinnacle of hilarity and all the virtues thereof and thereabout, I recommend that you read this, or far better, listen to this with the audiobooks that are read by Ron McLarty. He has reading Mercy Watson down to a fine art.
December 12, 2014
My five year old wanted to listen to the audio version of this book, so we did. Mercy is fun and always getting into some sort of mischief, though not always of her own making. In this collection of stories she helps catch a thief and dresses up as a princess for Halloween. She is always trying to find a way to get her favorite treat, hot buttered toast.
(I am kind of hoping my daughter has had enough of Mercy Watson...)
(I am kind of hoping my daughter has had enough of Mercy Watson...)
October 29, 2007
includes: mercy watson fights crime and mercy watson: princess in disguise. funny, short, sweet early chapter books. good audio translations.
December 20, 2010
Both my son & daughter loved these stories on CD. I think they are great books for beginning chapter books as well. Mercy is a well loved pig.
August 27, 2013
Listened to this with Meyer.
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December 9, 2013i likd win she wus jriving
February 12, 2014
PIG'S PIG"S PIG'S
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