The Pig in the Pond
by Martin Waddell
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An overheated pig who doesn't swim, throws himself into a pond, throwing the farmyard into an uproar.Tags
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Best rhyme book ever. When the farmer takes off his clothes and jumps in the pond with the animals, it's uproar in the audience (3-4 year olds - EDIT: the toddlers over two loved it as well, they just enjoyed the general mayhem and the beautiful illustrated animals more than the twist). Sooo classy. Rhymes are refined and perfectly age appropriate at the same time. Good for learning animals and clothes, too...
EDIT/2: I realised just now that Waddell is also the author of another favourite of mine (and the children's): Owl Babies!
This guy is on the way to becoming one of my favourite people :D
EDIT/2: I realised just now that Waddell is also the author of another favourite of mine (and the children's): Owl Babies!
This guy is on the way to becoming one of my favourite people :D
Neligan's pig goes for a swim and the other animals are up in arms in this very funny story with great illustrations. Great read-aloud.
Only caveat is brief nudity - silly people might be offended. Ignore them.
Only caveat is brief nudity - silly people might be offended. Ignore them.
I really like the style of the illustrations in this book. It also has a nice rhythm to the words that makes it really fun to read aloud. =)
Plons! is een fantastisch boek. Het wil aan kinderen meegeven dat je zelf je eigen keuzes kan maken, en dat anders zijn niet erg is. Ik kon het boek wel 100 keer op een avond lezen omdat ik het zo erg leuk en grappig vond. Erg goed boek voor kinderen.
Almost five stars, because it'll refresh *anyone* who reads it. Maybe even Trump, cops, protesters, the unemployed, and the dying. Certainly everyone I know. Very short. Avl. on openlibrary.org.
This is an all-time favorite book of mine. Kids love to find out what Nelligan decides to do when he sees that pig in the pond. It's a shocker!
This is an all-time favorite book of mine. Kids love to find out what Nelligan decides to do when he sees that pig in the pond. It's a shocker!
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Martin Waddell was born April 10, 1941, in Belfast, Ireland. He always wanted to be a professional soccer player. After having played for junior teams in Ireland, he left school at fifteen and held a variety of jobs, including working at a publishing company and as a night switchboard operator for a taxi company. Waddell is now one of the most show more prolific and successful contemporary children's writers, with more than one hundred books to his credit, some of them under his pseudonym Catherine Sefton. He won the 1986 Other Award, for his book Starry Night, which was also a runner up for The Guardian Children¿s Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Young Observer Teenage Fiction Prize. He has twice won the Smarties Book Prize, for Farmer Duck and Can't You Sleep Little Bear? He also won the 1989 Kurt Mascher Award for The Park In The Dark, the 1990 Bets Book For Babies for Rosie¿s Babies and has been shortlisted for the 1992 Smarties Book Prize for Along The Lonely Road. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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