Small Pig audiobook

I am in posession of a recording of my 4-year-old self "reading" this book. I don't share it with many people but it is truly hilarious. Just a great beginners book!

One of my childhood favorites. Love reading it with my girls, they love it too!

This was a fun little book with many three-letter words my 4-year-old could read, which is a big bonus to me. The story was fun and the pictures helped the kids enjoy the story after I'd read it and they just wanted to look back through the book.

Small Pig is about a pig who is small. He loves nothing more than to sink down in good, soft mud. But when the farmer's wife cleans up his mud puddle, the pig must go out into the world to find a place that is messy enough for him. Will he find his mud? What will the farmer and his wife do when they find that he's gone?Small Pig is a simple story told simply. I have always loved the work of Arnold Lobel, but only as I've gotten older have I been able to appreciate the elegance with which he weaves a tale. The ending of Small Pig is easy enough to spot from the beginning, but by the way it's told, one doesn't care.Reading this at 26, Small Pig still makes me smile. Read it alone, or to someone you love. Either way, check it out.

This book will go down in my personal history as the first "real" book that Lila read to me fluently, all by herself. May 8, 2018.

Small pig loves nothing more than to soak in the mud outside his pen so when the farmer's wife decides to clean it all up, there's nothing left for pig to do but set off looking for a muddy patchy in a new place.One of Lobel's early I Can Read books simply shames the decodable texts that come out these days. Full of warmth and wit; it's a little beauty.

very touching. you should read it.

Fabulous read aloud

one of my favorite childhood books

Another classic from the Oink-pen of Arnold Lobel, who gave us the Frog and Toad series. I say OINK cos the very title is "Small Pig" and is about what the title says: a small pig. Small Pig doesn't care for the too-clean environs of his family farm. So he runs away to the city in search of better mud areas to splash in. Only this is The City, where the mud pool Small Pig finds on the sidewalks is not mud at all, but wet cement! Boy! Talk about the little piggy shoulda stayed home! Can his farm family find the piggy and free him from the city by.... actually freeing him from the city sidewalks? It's a lotta fun, and recommended for fans of kid's books involving piggys like Babe and Charlotte's Web. That'll do for now, Mr Lobel. That'll do for now.Four starsSmall Pig In The City!!!!

This was a favorite book of mine when I was a tiny girl, but I forgot about it until I started collecting Arnold Lobel books for my three year old son. Now, as an adult, I think I enjoy its silliness, cleverness, and diverse range of emotions and relationships the same if not more than I did-- the sign of a truly great children's book--layers for the years. The silly repetition of sinking into the mud keeps us turning the pages and longing with little piggy to find what makes him whole-- which turns out to be more than just his daily delights. My three year old son insists that I read this entire book to him multiple times a day. Which we do, and he giggles at the swamp scene every single time.

I don't remember why I added this to my to-read list, but I'm glad I did, because I love the small pig. I vaguely remember this book from my childhood, and that makes me wonder if Small Pig could have inspired my obsession with mud puddles as a kid?After reading this, I wanted to know more about author and illustrator Arnold Lobel. I read some biographical information about him, and it sounds like he dealt with a lot before dying in his 50s. I am impressed that even with such a complex life, he was able to write so many simple, wonderful stories.

This was one of my all time favorite childhood books. I don’t want to go into the reasons why, it would reveal spoilers and that’s not what this review is about. But, I love that pig.My non-spoilers review in a word cloud:a farm • a pig • nice cool mud • farmer’s wife • deep cleaning • a runaway pig • a swamp • a junkyard • the big city • antics ensue • family reunion • new understanding • nice cool mud

** spoiler alert ** Theres a pig and he ran away from his family. Because loves big puddles of mud so he ran away and got in a puddle but thete were already other angry animals there. Then he ran away because they bit him. So he went to the garbage dump. He was looking for mud but found none. And he went further away and went to where roads were being made and sunk down into a puddle of concrete. Then after that he was stuck. Then a bunch of people came to see him. And the farmer came and they got him out.

The small pig, who only wants to settle into good, soft mud has a time finding his/her bliss after the farmer's wife cleans up his/her pen. When some good, soft mud is finally found there is a problem. Thankfully, the farmer and his wife come to find him there is help at hand and mud to end his journey. Delightful.

One of the classic "I Can Read" books that Arnold Lobel is known for. In this story a small pig likes to sit down and sink down in good, soft mud. But one day the farmer's wife decides to clean up the farm... a fun story about the woes of the small pig and how its woes are solved.