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Mercy Watson: #5-6 [Collection Volume III]
Mercy Watson #5: Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig
Eugenia and Baby Lincoln may live next door to a pig, but that doesn’t stop them from living a gracious life. And the amiable Mercy Watson is equally determined to follow the delightful scent (and delicious taste) of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors are planting to beautify their yard. "Where have all the flowers gone?" shouts Eugenia, who is finally ready to take extreme measures —- and dial Animal Control! Has Mercy’s swine song come at last? Or will her well-pampered instincts keep her in buttered toast?
Mercy Watson #6: Something Wonky This Way Comes
Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their porcine wonder, Mercy, are off to the Bijou Drive-In. What will happen when the Lincoln Sisters, Frank, Stella, and a gaggle of familiar characters get the same idea for a night out? With the tempting scent of hot buttered popcorn wafting through the air, everyone’s favorite pig leads the way in this hilarious romp featuring movies, mayhem, and Mercy!
Eugenia and Baby Lincoln may live next door to a pig, but that doesn’t stop them from living a gracious life. And the amiable Mercy Watson is equally determined to follow the delightful scent (and delicious taste) of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors are planting to beautify their yard. "Where have all the flowers gone?" shouts Eugenia, who is finally ready to take extreme measures —- and dial Animal Control! Has Mercy’s swine song come at last? Or will her well-pampered instincts keep her in buttered toast?
Mercy Watson #6: Something Wonky This Way Comes
Mr. and Mrs. Watson and their porcine wonder, Mercy, are off to the Bijou Drive-In. What will happen when the Lincoln Sisters, Frank, Stella, and a gaggle of familiar characters get the same idea for a night out? With the tempting scent of hot buttered popcorn wafting through the air, everyone’s favorite pig leads the way in this hilarious romp featuring movies, mayhem, and Mercy!
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Kate DiCamillo
146 books11.2k 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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February 15, 2020
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January 17, 2025Almost Dickensian in the bizarre character names and heaps of coincidences. Entirely entertaining for children.
July 25, 2017
It was a cute collection of silly and delightful stories that will bring a lighthearted and fun way to read rhymes for any child.
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:
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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.
April 14, 2018
In this collection Mercy the pig things like a pig, and in one story she is interested in the neighbours' newly planted (and tasty) pansies. oh-oh
December 27, 2014
Mercy Watson is up to her usual antics, such as eating the neighbor's flowers and going to a movie with her "parents." As always, Eugenia (the neighbor) disapproves of the pig but the pig seems to walk away from every encounter unscathed. I found this collection slightly more amusing than the last one, but still not a favorite story.
August 12, 2016
This is a great chapter book series for the 1st grader. My daughters loved all of the books in this collection
January 28, 2013
Cute and I loved how they brought all the characters together.
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May 27, 2013Mercy was helping herself to other people's popcorn. Once she scared a little girl. Her dad was mad at Mercy. At the end of the book Mercy got a lot of toast.
November 29, 2013
very good I enjoyed the many wonderful things about a pig who loves butter I think it is wonderful story
May 22, 2014
I loved that mercy goes to the movies and she smells butter from the popcorn and goes crazy!
December 15, 2015
Fun, and the four year old enjoyed it well enough, but not as funny as it had been made out to be by people who'd recommended it to me over the years. Maybe I was just expecting too much?
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