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Pig the Pug #6
Pig the Stinker
Pig the Pug and his best friend Trevor are back for another hilarious adventure in the bestselling series! In this hilarious adventure, Pig the Pug STINKS! Pig likes to be smelly, so he rolls around in the garbage, laps up spoiled milk, tracks dirty paw prints all over the house, and even sticks his head in the toilet! But enough is enough! Pig's owner tries to get him to take a bath, but Pig refuses! Pig has a plan to stop up the tub, but when it backfires, will Pig get clean after all? Rich with author-illustrator Aaron Blabey's signature rhyming text and unforgettable illustrations, Pig the Stinker is a laugh-out-loud story that teaches Pig -- and readers -- an important (and hilarious) lesson, just like in the five previous books in the series ( Pig the Pug , Pig the Winner , Pig the Elf , Pig the Star , and Pig the Fibber ).
24 pages, Hardcover
First published April 30, 2019
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Aaron Blabey
186 books844 followersAaron is an Australian author of children's books and artist who until the mid-2000s was also an actor. His award winning picture books include Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon and the best-selling Pig the Pug.
In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.
In the field of acting, he is probably best known for his lead roles in two television dramedies, 1994's The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award, and 2003's CrashBurn, before retiring from performance in 2005.
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March 21, 2022
Pig the Pug, the worst-behaved canine in the world, returns in this sixth picture-book devoted to his (mis)adventures. Having demonstrated his general nastiness, dishonesty, hyper-competitiveness, greed, and vanity in the previous installments of the series, here he displays a total disregard for good hygiene. In short, he stinks, and his family's efforts to bathe him produce the usual naughty hi-jinks and eventual disaster for our puggish anti-hero...
Like its predecessors, Pig the Stinker pairs an entertaining tale of a very bad dog with bright, colorful artwork that accentuates the sense of humor to be found in the story. The rhyming text and rhythmic structure here - "Pig liked to get dirty. / He frankly was RANK. / His paws could be frightful. / His fur often stank" - makes this one an excellent read-aloud selection for story-time. Pig is no model of good behavior, but then, that is rather the point. Recommended to fans of this putrid pup and his adventures, and to anyone looking for children's stories with a sharp and mischievous sense of humor.
Like its predecessors, Pig the Stinker pairs an entertaining tale of a very bad dog with bright, colorful artwork that accentuates the sense of humor to be found in the story. The rhyming text and rhythmic structure here - "Pig liked to get dirty. / He frankly was RANK. / His paws could be frightful. / His fur often stank" - makes this one an excellent read-aloud selection for story-time. Pig is no model of good behavior, but then, that is rather the point. Recommended to fans of this putrid pup and his adventures, and to anyone looking for children's stories with a sharp and mischievous sense of humor.
August 17, 2021
J’ai adoré. Des rires et bin du plaisir à partager en lisant ce livre avec son enfant ❤️
April 17, 2019
As my dad says, Pig the Pug is a jerk, but the loveable kind :)
August 28, 2018
Author and Illustrator: Aaron Blabey
Age Recommendation: Pre-School/ Kinder
Art Style: Hand Drawn
Topic/ Theme: Personal Hygiene
Setting: A House (and the bathroom in it)
Series: Pig the Pug
Pig and Trevor are back moving away from their other references (which my librarian mother and I have sometimes speculated about, 7 deadly sins maybe?) and into the lessons kids sometimes struggle with, cleanliness and personal hygiene. It does a wonderful job. Making kids want to do the right thing.
This is fantastic. As with all the others in the series, it is so funny, so detailed. The more you look at it the more details you see, the inscription to Trevor, his shower cap, the cute bone. The whole Pig the Pug series is one for all ages. But brilliant for younglings as a fun educational tool.
May 10, 2019
I love the Pig the pug books. They are just fun. And this book is so true to life. Well, except my dad’s pug likes to get baths. However, all my other dogs act exactly like Pig, so i get it. The rhymes and and cadence are spot on, the story funny, and the illustrations on point. A story to make anyone laugh that should be on all our shelves.
September 18, 2021
Loved this book! There was poop and butts and a chase scene and an explosion!
My new favorite book.
My new favorite book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 6, 2020
Very funny!
March 22, 2019
This book is so cute! It is about a pug named Pig who refuses to take a bath to get clean. He ends up causing the bathroom to explode!! After that he has no problem taking baths but still finds a way to be foul!
I really like this book! I love the illustrations and I definitely want to get a hold of the rest of the series after reading this one!
I would use a text-to-self activity with this book in my classroom! The sheet says to find something that Pig doesn't like to do and then find something that you (the student) doesn't enjoy and writre about it and why you don't like it.
I really like this book! I love the illustrations and I definitely want to get a hold of the rest of the series after reading this one!
I would use a text-to-self activity with this book in my classroom! The sheet says to find something that Pig doesn't like to do and then find something that you (the student) doesn't enjoy and writre about it and why you don't like it.
September 27, 2023
A favorite in our house. Funny. Silly illustrations. You can’t help but love Pig the Pug.
February 25, 2019
This book was so funny! It made me chuckle. Pig the Pug books are always cute but this one was exceptionally good.
March 4, 2019
Blabey’s Pig the Pug series has been a great tool for showing the wrong in being a sore loser, trying to steal the spotlight, and being selfish as Pig displays the bad side and Trevor the dachshund shows the right thing to do. The artwork is detailed and expressive and the text rhythmic and descriptive. Pig the Stinker is a little different. The illustrations are just as fabulous and the text just as lilting, but this time, it’s focus is on the messy and filthy behaviors of the poorly behaving pug and very little time is spent on the right thing to do. I’m fairly certain that fans of the series will still be able to use this installment to teach their students, but I prefer the early books in this series.
September 4, 2018
Carefree, easy rhyme makes this latest pug installment a pleasure to read. One of the better chapters of Pig's life story in picture books. Must be something about all the grubby nastiness about it, but I loved it as I'm certain mud-loving, bottom-burping pre-schoolers will, too.
April 25, 2019
Gross and silly dog gets an unexpected bath.
May 13, 2019
I LOVE PIG THE PUG!!
September 9, 2019
While I love Pig the Pug (and very patient Trevor), this was not the most memorable escapade for the duo. Trevor definitely puts up with a lot in this book when Pig decides he's too cool for a bath.
February 3, 2021
Reminds me of my dog!
August 24, 2021
3 - 5 Years
March 14, 2024
I am 7. This book is very stinky and very funny too. I really liked it and hope you can like it too.
June 13, 2019
How have we never read one of these before? I laughed out loud during this one. Loved!
June 19, 2019
Rollicking, rhyming text with humorous illustrations come together to make a fun picture book that is sure to get plenty of giggles from young readers. Pig, the naughty Pug from the Pig the Pug series, loves rolling around in stinky messes. And he absolutely hates to have a bath (dog owners will be able to relate to this). As the dog makes and even bigger mess trying to avoid the tub, it might be fun to stop and have young readers make predictions. It might even inspire young writers to create their own messy pet stories.
July 31, 2019
Pig the Pug is back in this rhyming tale explaining Pig's revolting behavior when it comes to be a stinker, and the lengths he'll go to void a bath.
February 28, 2019
{My thoughts} – I have not read any of the previous books in this series before. I am thankful that I read through books before I share them with my children. This book is a funny book about a dog that just refuses to get a bath. He is messy and dirty and makes a mess out of things.
The cover has Pig the Pug on it wearing a shower cap. It’s nicely colored and about what you’d imagine of a dog getting ready for a bath. The words within the pages go nicely with the illustrations. However, I am not a fan of some of the words used. “You stinky old nmutt!” I realize these are probably words used in most households, but I am not okay with them in a children’s book. I don’t like things that portray negativity. I don’t want my girls to talk like that about a person, let alone an animal. Other then that it’s a pretty nice book. If you have similar feelings about words such as those, you may want to change the words around a little like I did. “You are one silly mutt!” is what I read it as as opposed to what was written.
This is a fun book and I am sure many children will fall in love with it. I see it being a bonus fall in love with book if they are fans of dogs. I think it could make a nice addition to any child’s home library.
The cover has Pig the Pug on it wearing a shower cap. It’s nicely colored and about what you’d imagine of a dog getting ready for a bath. The words within the pages go nicely with the illustrations. However, I am not a fan of some of the words used. “You stinky old nmutt!” I realize these are probably words used in most households, but I am not okay with them in a children’s book. I don’t like things that portray negativity. I don’t want my girls to talk like that about a person, let alone an animal. Other then that it’s a pretty nice book. If you have similar feelings about words such as those, you may want to change the words around a little like I did. “You are one silly mutt!” is what I read it as as opposed to what was written.
This is a fun book and I am sure many children will fall in love with it. I see it being a bonus fall in love with book if they are fans of dogs. I think it could make a nice addition to any child’s home library.
November 25, 2025
I like this book because it is funny! Also I learned not to be stinky.
January 27, 2019
He's back!!!
Pig the Grub is the latest addition to the best selling Pig series by Arraon Blabey. With over two million Pig Books sold, you know you are in safe hands when it comes to quality kids picture books that will both entertain, and expand your child's understanding of the world and vocabulary, all the while keeping readers of all ages coming back to see what Pig has gotten himself into this time.
In typical Pig The Pug style, Pig the Grub opens with an already dirty Pig, who steadily gets and worse and worse as the book progresses thanks to Pig's less than ideal pastimes - playing with poo, lying in rubbish and mud etc. When the stench becomes unbearable, his owners try to bathe him, only for Pig to get up to his old tricks and goes to outlandish lengths to escape bath time (i.e. he plugs the taps), until his attempts backfire with a BANG and he ends up bathed and sulking, but still the unrefined, graceless, selfish and farting Pig the Pug we all know and love.
While the story itself is entertaining and what readers have come to expect from this vastly popular character, the book also takes on a serious note as it teaches kids about the importance of great hygiene for both oneself and those around them.
The text is simple and clear and usually restricted to no more than four or five lines per page. All of which goes to show how much of genius Blabey is and how well he knows his market, as Blabey uses his sparse words cleverly, making every word count. What's more every now and then, accompanying a particularly smelly looking Pig, Blabey challenges the readers vocabulary by using words like 'rank', 'reeked', and 'rancid', just to name a few. The accompanying illustration and unfamiliar text, teaches the child reader more sophisticated and hard words in an easy to understand manner; a no small feat for books aimed at such young children.
Blabey has deliberately chosen his usual bland colour pallet for this book - predominately browns, blacks, greys, red, yellows/oranges with hits of green and pink in places - that further empathises the dire need for Pig's bath. While Blabey is an expert illustrator in his own right, I love that he employs such basic colour schemes and doesn't rely on bright and bold, over the top, colours and illustration devices to get his story over the line. Instead, his artwork is clean, coherent and timeless, creating the brand that readers easily identify with and can't get enough off.
With Six Pig The Pug books successfully under his belt already, one would suspect Blabey's tried and tested formula to start to get old and predictable by now. Instead, Blabey is going from strength to strength with his wickedly mischievous and naughty Pig The Pug getting up to even more obscene tricks and tantrums in every single book. Pig and Trevor are delightfully unpredictable and his story telling is humorous and educational with out preaching.
Pig the Grub would make a perfect addition to any child's growing library collection.
This review was originally posted at The Never Ending Bookshelf on the 13.10.18 and can be found here: https://wp.me/p3yY1u-1us
Pig the Grub is the latest addition to the best selling Pig series by Arraon Blabey. With over two million Pig Books sold, you know you are in safe hands when it comes to quality kids picture books that will both entertain, and expand your child's understanding of the world and vocabulary, all the while keeping readers of all ages coming back to see what Pig has gotten himself into this time.
In typical Pig The Pug style, Pig the Grub opens with an already dirty Pig, who steadily gets and worse and worse as the book progresses thanks to Pig's less than ideal pastimes - playing with poo, lying in rubbish and mud etc. When the stench becomes unbearable, his owners try to bathe him, only for Pig to get up to his old tricks and goes to outlandish lengths to escape bath time (i.e. he plugs the taps), until his attempts backfire with a BANG and he ends up bathed and sulking, but still the unrefined, graceless, selfish and farting Pig the Pug we all know and love.
While the story itself is entertaining and what readers have come to expect from this vastly popular character, the book also takes on a serious note as it teaches kids about the importance of great hygiene for both oneself and those around them.
The text is simple and clear and usually restricted to no more than four or five lines per page. All of which goes to show how much of genius Blabey is and how well he knows his market, as Blabey uses his sparse words cleverly, making every word count. What's more every now and then, accompanying a particularly smelly looking Pig, Blabey challenges the readers vocabulary by using words like 'rank', 'reeked', and 'rancid', just to name a few. The accompanying illustration and unfamiliar text, teaches the child reader more sophisticated and hard words in an easy to understand manner; a no small feat for books aimed at such young children.
Blabey has deliberately chosen his usual bland colour pallet for this book - predominately browns, blacks, greys, red, yellows/oranges with hits of green and pink in places - that further empathises the dire need for Pig's bath. While Blabey is an expert illustrator in his own right, I love that he employs such basic colour schemes and doesn't rely on bright and bold, over the top, colours and illustration devices to get his story over the line. Instead, his artwork is clean, coherent and timeless, creating the brand that readers easily identify with and can't get enough off.
With Six Pig The Pug books successfully under his belt already, one would suspect Blabey's tried and tested formula to start to get old and predictable by now. Instead, Blabey is going from strength to strength with his wickedly mischievous and naughty Pig The Pug getting up to even more obscene tricks and tantrums in every single book. Pig and Trevor are delightfully unpredictable and his story telling is humorous and educational with out preaching.
Pig the Grub would make a perfect addition to any child's growing library collection.
This review was originally posted at The Never Ending Bookshelf on the 13.10.18 and can be found here: https://wp.me/p3yY1u-1us
August 28, 2019
Pig the Stinker by Aaron Blabey. PICTURE BOOK. Scholastic, 2018. $15. 9781338337549
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Told with impeccably well cadanced text, Pig the Pug books are fun to read aloud. In this one, Pig is starting to stink but will not take a bath. When he ultimately makes the bathroom explode, he finally gives in and gets clean (only to then pass gas in the bathtub).
Kids love this naughty, but also strangely charming pug. The book does use the word “butt” and utilizes a lot of bathroom humor, so you may have to consider your audience when pulling this book off the shelf.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
Told with impeccably well cadanced text, Pig the Pug books are fun to read aloud. In this one, Pig is starting to stink but will not take a bath. When he ultimately makes the bathroom explode, he finally gives in and gets clean (only to then pass gas in the bathtub).
Kids love this naughty, but also strangely charming pug. The book does use the word “butt” and utilizes a lot of bathroom humor, so you may have to consider your audience when pulling this book off the shelf.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
https://kissthebookjr.blogspot.com/20...
January 31, 2019
I am a big fan of Pig. This one is lots of fun! Pig is nasty and needs a bath. He dodges the bullet every way he can. The illustrations are very funny and will keep kids laughing. Great read-aloud. Highly recommended for Grades K-2.
January 11, 2021
modern masterpiece
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 17, 2019
Another laugh out loud adventure with Pig the Pug!!
February 1, 2019
My six year old daughter said it was super funny because it has poop.
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